# Prix Goncourt winner Philippe Jaenada winner touts using AI

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/prix-goncourt-winner-philippe-jaenada-winner-touts-using-ai/
- Published: 2026-11-05T19:43:16+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T20:39:21+00:00
- Original publisher: Le Monde (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2026/11/05/prix-goncourt-winner-philippe-jaenada-winner-touts-using-ai_6772966_30.html
- Topics: AI, Europe, Technology, World

## Key points

- Jaenada says he used AI three times in his Goncourt-winning novel.
- One ChatGPT sentence was included as a game for readers.
- His admission revives debate over AI and literary authorship.

## Summary

Philippe Jaenada, newly awarded the Prix Goncourt, has said he used artificial intelligence three times while writing his winning novel. His disclosure has renewed debate about AI in literature, coming amid controversy over a different author whose book was dropped from prize consideration over suspicions of AI use.

Jaenada said he used ChatGPT to insert a sentence as a game for readers, to satirise the chatbot’s absurd replies to a technical question, and for research. He has told the Goncourt jury which sentence was generated but has not identified it publicly. Jaenada argues that writers should acknowledge and learn to use AI without allowing it to replace them.

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