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Quebec author admits past plagiarism, denies AI use in novel
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Quebec author Thélyson Orélien admitted plagiarizing other writers in earlier work and apologized for what he called unacceptable mistakes in his youth, while denying that artificial intelligence wrote his novel. He says he began *C’était ça ou mourir* in 2017, completed its first draft in 2019 and did not use a machine to generate any sentence. The Académie Goncourt removed the novel from its selection after allegations surfaced in October; publisher Éditions du Boréal suspended promotion.