Thélyson Orélien Case: Historian Boukari-Yabara Compares It to 18th Century Black Authors' Suspicions

Historian Amzat Boukari-Yabara discussed the controversy surrounding Canadian-Haitian writer Thélyson Orélien, who is falsely accused of using artificial intelligence to write his book « C’était ça ou mourir ». He notes that in the 18th century, autobiographies by African authors were already doubted and labeled as inauthentic to uphold racist ideologies. Boukari-Yabara emphasizes that the use of AI rekindles racial biases linked to the concept of the « ghostwriter » or « literary nègre ».