Overview
- Tokarczuk, in a statement shared by her publisher Tuesday, said she did not use AI to write her novel due in Polish this fall.
- She said she uses artificial intelligence as a tool to speed up background research and fact checks.
- She added that she verifies any information the tool provides, as she would with books, libraries, and archives.
- The flare-up followed a Polish interview whose excerpts, translated by a writer and through Google Translate, spread on social media and implied AI authorship.
- In that interview she described asking a language model for period-appropriate song ideas and creative prompts, praised its potential for fiction, and noted it can hallucinate errors, highlighting the line readers now draw between research help and authorship.