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Philippe Jaenada, the 2026 Goncourt Prize winner for his novel 'L'Inconnue du quai de Javel', revealed that he used artificial intelligence (AI) three times for his work. He notably hid an AI-generated sentence in the text. The author explained his use of AI as a playful and ironic approach, assumed even before he started writing. He used AI for research and to generate a humorous sentence. This use has sparked debates, especially in comparison to the Thélyson Orélien case, another author accused of heavily using AI for his novel.
Philippe Jaenada used AI to ask humorous questions to two chatbots, such as 'what dries the fastest at night, at 17°, with little wind: the long hair of a brunette young woman or the Parisian pavement?'. He also used AI for research, for example to find out if the fingers of a corpse wrinkle in hot water.
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