Publisher Boréal cuts ties with novelist Thélyson Orélien over alleged AI use

Canadian publisher Les Éditions du Boréal confirmed that AI was used in writing Thélyson Orélien's novel C'était ça ou mourir and ended its relationship with the author. An outside analysis of drafts found traces of AI tags in document metadata; Orélien denies that any sentence was machine-generated.

• Boréal hired an outside party to analyse all working versions of the novel
• Traces of AI tags were found in the metadata of some documents
• The book was pulled from the Prix Goncourt list after a Pangram check
• The migration novel was set for translation in more than 20 countries