Prix Pascal: If AI writes your book, are you still a writer?

There is now a new French literary prize for AI-assisted writing — the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA. The Pascal prize requires entrants to turn in an unpublished manuscript, fiction or non-fiction, in French, of approximately 3,00,000 characters, written with the help of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Writers must declare which AI model and prompts they have employed.

The applications, to be submitted by November 30, consist of “a seed, a manuscript and a technical file, submitted simultaneously”. Ten finalists will be announced on December 4 and the winner will be revealed on December 15. The manifesto on the prize website reads: “This [submitted] work must be useful, or raise awareness, or help to solve in an original way one of the ecological, social and ethical challenges that threaten humanity.

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