AI and Literature: The Thélyson Orélien Affair in Eight Op-Eds

Le Monde looks back at eight op-eds published since the start of the Thélyson Orélien affair. Thanks to Anne Dujin’s work of synthesis and analysis, the outlines of a debate that goes far beyond the single case of C’était ça ou mourir are beginning to emerge.

What is a writer in the age of AI? What place should we give to transparency, to the “reading contract,” and to authenticity? Should books written with AI be labeled? What becomes of the figure of the author, of literary criticism and, more broadly, of intellectual work when machines can produce sophisticated texts?

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