Mark my words, soon enough we will have to accept and grade AI-generated work if it comes from minority students. The wave of support for the black writer who published an AI-written novel in French demonstrates that.
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“wave of support for the black writer who published an AI-written novel”
Also the support for Jason Arday….
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(Slightly) good news: the Goncourt has eliminated his book from consideration. This hasn’t caused me to gain any respect for the Goncourt; outside of the AI allegations, why did they consider this poorly written book in the first place? And they’re surely going to award the Goncourt to an equally terrible book. Overall, they will learn absolutely nothing from this debacle. But keeping the book in consideration would’ve set a horrible precedent, so I’ll still count this as a small win.
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The French commentariat are VICIOUS too. I need to be writing down some of the insults I’m seeing, honestly
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If I am obliged to grade AI homework, I will have AI grading it. Preferably a different model than the one that put it together.
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I knew you would find out about that sad story. The guy also plagiarized (not pastiche or anything of the sort: plagiarism). It has been demonstrated. It is another sad story with multiple readings, a bit like the Jason Arday story. We may ask the question why this book was examined through an AI detector and no others (because the writer was black, thus suspicious?). I would not be surprised if white scholars/writers are not put under such a close scrutiny. But we may also understand this story thinking that people coming from minority groups have that sinister choice when it comes to self-fashion themselves in this world: using a system to their advantage, but ignoring the consequences. In sum, it is such a sad story for literature. I kind of pity the guy, without excusing him, obviously.
What I find even more interesting in that story, however, is how it is possible that yet another immigration story, with so many metaphors, managed to go that far in the literary price season in the francophone world. I usually read 3-4 new titles in French every year during that season, but I did not read the book because precisely In it nothing seemed to be… new.
Ol.
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I wouldn’t be able to tell in French, but in English, I know within the first paragraph that it’s an AI text. I don’t need an AI detector. It’s very obvious. It’s always the same tone. I have no idea how it’s possible that different AI tools all write in the exact same weepy, mealy-mouthed, vulgar tone.
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I haven’t slept in 30 hours, so I can’t express myself successfully, but here are people who are actually defending the use of AI by the author on the grounds that it’s not illegal:
https://x.com/Isabelle_Szcz/status/2103373354065428665
Something very powerful must be driving people to take such obviously ridiculous positions.
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The good news is that readers will decide at the end. And yesterday I was at my local bookstore and the manager said that many commands by former avid readers were cancelled.
And you are right, what is extremely troubling is that nobody flagged the possible use of AI before. Again, I did not read the novel, but this point baffles me completely. What about the exchanges between the writer and the editors? But then again, the publishing house (Boréal) of the book has not been particularly relevant for at least two decades, so…
Ol.
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