Goncourt winner Jaenada says he used ChatGPT three times while writing his novel
Philippe Jaenada, who won France's top literary prize on Tuesday for L'Inconnue du quai de Javel, told France Inter he turned to AI to 'play with the reader' — a day after the jury had pulled a different book from the longlist over AI use allegations.
Philippe Jaenada, who won the Prix Goncourt on Tuesday for L'Inconnue du quai de Javel (The Unknown Woman of the Quai de Javel), told France Inter radio on Wednesday that he had used artificial intelligence while writing the novel, according to the Guardian. He said he turned to ChatGPT 'three times' in order to 'play with the reader.'
The admission came barely a day after Jaenada collected the award, and after the Goncourt jury had removed a different book from its longlist earlier this year over suspicions that it had been written with AI assistance, the Guardian reports.
The Guardian's account, drawn from Jaenada's own remarks on France Inter, does not specify which passages of the novel involved AI, nor how the technology was used beyond the author's description of 'playing with the reader.' No response from the Goncourt jury to Jaenada's statement has been reported.
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