Digital specialist Bruno Guglielminetti shared his thoughts on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in literature and journalism on the Panel Magik show this Wednesday, October 14.<\/p>

Commenting on the novel by Thélyson Orélien, Bruno Guglielminetti said he does not know if the work was produced by an AI but acknowledges that today these tools can write a coherent novel with characters, a plot, and a certain literary quality. He confided that these chatbots have been trained on the universal knowledge that is available online to produce such works.<\/p>

“There are no tools today that can verify 100% if a work was written by a machine,” he stated. “The one used to verify Thélyson's novel revealed that the work was written 100% by an AI. The same tool had analyzed other texts, including one by a French author dated over a century ago and parts of the Bible. It also revealed that they were written by the AI. So, it’s difficult to say if these tools recognize a text that was written by the AI or something that resembles something from their memory,” explained Mr. Guglielminetti.<\/p>

For Bruno, in the case where Thélyson might have used a chatbot to correct and refine his text, it does not take away his credit as the author since he is the one who originated the ideas and stories included in it. In this sense, Bruno emphasizes that more and more authors are beginning to be transparent by mentioning that they have used modern tools to help offer something of quality to their readers. Some do this in the prefaces, at the end of the work, or during interviews. “It does not detract from the creative process,” he says.<\/p>

Journalism and AI<\/strong><\/p>

According to the digital specialist, AI makes journalists' work faster. Humanly, writing 5 to 6 interesting articles a day was a difficult task before AI. Today it is possible. For him, there is no problem if a journalist uses AI to write their text as long as there is human intervention to supervise and verify the bad from the good. However, he suggests that journalists who use AI in their work should mention this to their readers out of concern for transparency and ethics.<\/p>

When asked about the harmful consequences of AI on journalism, Mr. Guglielminetti emphasized that AI does not threaten journalism but rather the information itself, as someone with bad intentions can use it to achieve their ends. In this sense, he invites readers to create a link with trusted media to distinguish the true from the false.<\/p>

Thélyson Orélien, author of the novel “C'était ça ou mourir,” has been accused of having resorted to AI. Upon its release, his work received positive reviews from several juries before being accused, at the end of September, of having used AI for its writing. Since then, these allegations have created controversy around the author's work.<\/p>

On Tuesday, October 13, Orélien sent a statement to the Agence France Presse denying all accusations regarding the use of AI to write his book. The author does acknowledge, however, that he had plagiarized in the past to write certain texts.<\/p>