Prix Goncourt winner Philippe Jaenada says he used AI while writing his novel

Jaenada won France's top literary prize on Tuesday for a novel reconstructing a 1949 Paris murder, then told radio he had used AI three times.

• Jaenada won the Prix Goncourt in the first round with six votes to three over Sylvain Prudhomme's De l'autre côté du lac.
• He told France Inter on Wednesday he used AI three times, including a ChatGPT-written sentence inserted to "play with the reader".
• The Académie Goncourt removed Thélyson Orélien's novel from its longlist in September, saying it was in all likelihood largely AI-generated.
• Academy president Philippe Claudel said changes adopted before year's end would bar AI-assisted works from the prize.