Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
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#2>Olga Tokarczuk has responded to the controversy over her reputed use of AI.
https://lithub.com/olga-tokarczuk-has-responded-to-the-contr...
Update: On Tuesday afternoon, Tokarczuk sent a statement to Lit Hub via her publisher, Riverhead, denying she used AI in her writing for anything other than research. Read it here:
>After Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s recent remarks implying she had used AI to write her recent novel made the rounds on social media, the novelist shared a statement with Lit Hub via her publisher, addressing the controversy:
Like any other conversation, remarks made before a live audience at a public event can be incorrectly understood.
I did not write my forthcoming book – to be published in fall 2026 in Polish – either using AI or with anyone else. For several decades I have written alone.
I state briefly and firmly:
1. I make use of artificial intelligence on the same principles as most people in the world – 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.
2. None of my texts, including the novel that will appear in Polish this fall, has been written with the help of artificial intelligence – except for using it as a tool for faster preliminary research.
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.
Olga Tokarczuk, May 19, 2026, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Re: Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel
#3This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following.
It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
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#5This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following. It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
Yeah, like Rob Pike.
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#6Cool, I also use AI as a tool.
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#7No comment on whether the book seems AI-generated or not, but:
It is quite insidious how AI is trained on real-world writers, who then get accused of being a copy, not the original.
It makes me think the future of language, at least in realms where authenticity matters, is going to be constantly changing slang, experimental structures, etc. – all things that boilerplate LLMs will never give you.
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#8This is personal opinion anecdata, but I'm noticing the following. It's only the mediocres that rail against AI; actual geniuses are like "hey, another tool. Cool."
Like aphyr?
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#9I don't even know what this story is trying to be about. She won the Nobel (and the Man Booker) many years before the public availability of LLMs. It sounds like she's saying she used LLMs the same way people used Google, before LLMs supplanted it. So what?
"Flights" is a good read.
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#10Kinda interesting that more boomers embrace AI than zoomers.