Quebec-based author Thélyson Orélien has admitted to past plagiarism, but continues to deny that he used AI to generate his award-winning novel It Was Either That Or Die. Last month, an investigation by Canadian newspaper La Press found substantial evidence of plagiarism in his published work from 2012-2014, before the advent of AI, and the Goncourt Prize dropped him from consideration. Orélien called his past plagiarism “unacceptable” and “a youthful indiscretion.” “I admired rhythms, ways of phrasing sentences that would stay in my head for days,” he said. “But admiration did not give me the right to take — to claim […]
