Row over best seller fuels fear over future of literature • FRANCE 24 English

France still very much takes its literary prize giving season seriously. So when a Haitian-born Canadian writer was accused of infusing his best-selling breakout novel with artificial intelligence, it got ugly in a hurry. We’ll wade into the Thélyson Orelien affair with its subsequent accusations of racism, previous plagiarism by the author and doubts over the accuracy of AI verification tool Pangram. Here’s the thing: some still love the book. Is that problem? The scandal’s all the more heartbreaking for publishers that It Was Either That or Die sold 40-thousand copies since its release, this as book sales have collapsed dramatically since the commercial launch of ChatGPT four short years ago. And that begs an even broader question: most of humanity only started reading and writing in the past century. Is that period over already? Sure, future generations will know how to read street signs and subtitles on a video… but if we’re no longer stopping what we do to engage meaningfully with the written word, how will that change us all? #AI #BOOKS #ORELIEN 🔔 Subscribe to France 24 now: https://f24.my/YTen 🔴 LIVE - Watch FRANCE 24 English 24/7 here: https://f24.my/YTliveEN 🌍 Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https://www.france24.com/en/ Like us on Facebook: https://f24.my/FBen Follow us on X: https://f24.my/Xen Bluesky: https://f24.my/BSen and Threads: https://f24.my/THen Browse the news in pictures on Instagram: https://f24.my/IGen Discover our TikTok videos: https://f24.my/TKen Get the latest top stories on Telegram: https://f24.my/TGen