France launches literary prize for books co-written with AI
A new literary prize in France will reward fiction written with the help of artificial intelligence, with authors required to disclose which AI tools and prompts they used.
The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA, named after French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, opened for submissions this week, The Guardian and Le Figaro reported.
The competition accepts unpublished fiction manuscripts of 10,000 to 50,000 words written in French. Entrants can live anywhere and do not need to have a publisher.
Unlike traditional literary competitions, which have faced controversy over undisclosed AI use, the Prix Pascal explicitly welcomes collaboration with large language models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and LLaMA.
Authors must submit a technical dossier identifying the models and prompts used to produce their work.
The organizers also want entries to explore or help address ethical, social or environmental challenges facing humanity.
The prize was founded by technology entrepreneurs Philippe Rodriguez, Albin Serviant and Gilles Mentré.
It comes amid disputes over suspected or acknowledged AI use in entries for several major literary awards, including France's prestigious Prix Goncourt.
Submissions close at the end of November, with the winner to be announced in December. The winning manuscript will be published.
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