Canada’s major literary awards say publishers play a key role in verifying authorship as prize organizers develop or refine policies on generative AI.
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Canadian literary awards are clarifying how they will handle books created with generative artificial intelligence.
Giller Prize executive director Elana Rabinovitch said publishers work closely with authors and are better positioned than awards administrators to determine whether generative AI was used in a submitted book.
Rabinovitch said the Giller Prize bars AI-written works from consideration.
The Governor General’s Literary Awards, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, is still formalizing its policy.
Caroline Lussier, director of arts promotion at the Canada Council, said the organization is establishing a policy with “clear expectations” about AI in books entered for the prizes and hopes to have it in place for the next competition cycle.
Lussier said the Council had already published guidance on AI use in funded projects and in the review of grant applications.
The comments point to a division of responsibility in the book industry: prize organizations set eligibility rules, while publishers are expected to have the clearest view of how a manuscript was produced.
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