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Publisher Drops Orélien Novel After AI Use Confirmed

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  • Les Éditions du Boréal terminated its contract with Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien after confirming AI use.
  • External analysis detected AI tags in the metadata of several manuscript drafts, confirming artificial-intelligence involvement.
  • The novel was removed from the Prix Goncourt shortlist after Pangram flagged a 100% AI-generated probability.
  • Orélien denied machine-written sentences, claiming AI was used only for researching foreign idioms while acknowledging past plagiarism.