# Canadian publisher Boréal ends ties with novelist Thélyson Orélien over alleged AI use

https://mins.news/en/item/110382

- The Guardian, 2026-10-22 01:13 UTC
- Culture
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/22/canadian-publisher-boreal-ends-relationship-author-thelyson-orelien-over-ai

> Les Éditions du Boréal said a further inquiry found traces of AI tags in metadata from some drafts of Thélyson Orélien’s novel, and ended its professional relationship with him. Orélien denies that a machine created any sentence in the book, while saying he used AI for historical research during the creative process.

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