{"id":595383,"date":"2026-05-21T01:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595383\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:54:31","slug":"literary-hub-olga-tokarczuk-has-responded-to-the-controversy-over-her-reputed-use-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595383\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Hub \u00bb Olga Tokarczuk has responded to the controversy over her reputed use of AI."},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s recent remarks implying she had used AI to write her recent novel<\/a> made the rounds on social media, the novelist shared a statement with Lit Hub via her publisher, addressing the controversy:<\/p>\n

Like any other conversation, remarks made before a live audience at a public event can be incorrectly understood.<\/p>\n

I did not write my forthcoming book \u2013 to be published in fall 2026 in Polish \u2013 either using AI or with anyone else. For several decades I have written alone.<\/p>\n

I state briefly and firmly:<\/p>\n

1. I make use of artificial intelligence on the same principles as most people in the world \u2013 I treat it as a tool that allows faster documenting and checking of facts. Whenever I use this tool I additionally verify the information. Just as I have done for several decades by reading books and by exploring libraries and archives.<\/p>\n

2. None of my texts, including the novel that will appear in Polish this fall, has been written with the help of artificial intelligence \u2013 except for using it as a tool for faster preliminary research.<\/p>\n

3. I am sometimes inspired by dreams, but before this sentence too is cornered and torn to pieces by the experts, I hasten to report that they are my own dreams.<\/p>\n

Olga Tokarczuk, May 19, 2026, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk\u2019s recent remarks implying she had used AI to write her recent novel made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}