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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

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lelanthran · 1790924879 · focus · HN ↗
I am more interested in the 18 people who replied "yes" to "An AI wrote an entire coherent book".
Maybe they mean a non-fiction "Learn Javascript in 21 Days" type of book? If not, I really want to read a novel-length (or even novelletee - 80k words or so) book written by an AI to see for myself if the results are comparable to non-self-published authors.
1. suddenlybananas · 1790930438 · focus · HN ↗
  A French-language novel that had won a lot of acclaim (shortlised for the Prix Goncourt) seems to have been written by AI: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world/europe/thelyson-orelien-ai-canada-haiti-france.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world/europe/thelyson-ore...
  Admittedly, I don't think there's any chance it was one shot, rather a pastiche of many, many prompts guided by the quasi-author.

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