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Canadian publisher drops writer Thelyson Orelien over AI use in novel
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Canadian publisher Boreal has ended its professional relationship with Haitian-Canadian writer Thelyson Orelien after finding evidence that AI was used in his novel’s writing process. The publisher said it found AI-related tags in metadata from some drafts, but cannot determine how extensively AI was used. Orelien has acknowledged using AI for historical research while denying that a machine wrote any part of the book.