Artprice releases French edition of Ehrmann’s AI-written dialogue

Artprice by Artmarket has released the French edition of Thierry Ehrmann’s “Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI,” extending a work first distributed internationally in English in September. The company said Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Hindi translations are also under way. The book is offered free under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Its announced print edition runs to about 1,800 pages and is presented as a “Raw Typescript,” leaving the text unpolished so that the creation process remains visible rather than producing a conventionally finished manuscript. The project was built from a 40-day-and-night exchange between Ehrmann and AI, comprising more than 450 hours of voice-only dialogue. The work identifies its method as “Human Thought & Dialogue: thierry | Writing: 100% AI,” while a preamble titled “The Entrusted Pen” sets out Ehrmann’s claimed role in supplying, directing, correcting, rejecting and acknowledging the material. Artprice frames that disclosure as an argument for transparency and creative freedom in AI-assisted literature. Ehrmann said he accepted responsibility for the meaning of the pages, characterising AI as a tool that executes an author’s concept rather than an intentional source of the work. The release also distinguishes quotations and archival material from its general description of the writing as AI-generated. The experiment began in July, before the French debate around Thélyson Orélien’s “C’était ça ou mourir” and its removal from the Prix Goncourt selection amid disputed AI-use suspicions. As this publication reported in September, conflicting AI-detection results in that case exposed the limits of treating such tools as proof of authorship. Artprice’s release argues that suspicion of algorithmic generation is distinct from evidence of plagiarism or a judicial finding. It places the book alongside a broader policy split: the Writers’ Trust and Giller Foundation have adopted restrictions on AI-generated texts in Canada, while the Authors Guild’s Human Authored certification is based chiefly on human origin and permits limited de minimis AI use. The company cited concerns about detector reliability, including a Stanford study that it said found numerous false positives in English essays by non-native speakers. It also noted the Caine Prize’s position that a machine conclusion alone should not constitute sufficient evidence, after the prize opened an investigation into winner Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza’s denial of generative-AI use without withdrawing his award. Artprice reported preliminary distribution of 27.9 million Raw Typescript downloads as of Oct. 15, across 123 countries and 12 languages. An earlier Artprice presentation described availability in 14 languages.