'Too offensive': AI refuses to copy top French author's style of writing

PARIS: The world's favourite French misanthrope writer

Michel Houellebecq

is too

controversial

for the world's new

AI

tools, which find his views so

offensive

that they cannot be repeated. The president of renowned French publishing house Gallimard wrote an article published Thursday saying he had asked Meta's Llama to write a scene in the style of Houellebecq.

Llama responded in French that it could not write something considered "offensive or discriminatory". Instead, it offered in English to write a scene that was "respectful and inclusive". Houellebecq is known for novels with a deeply pessimistic view of the modern world, in which the sexual revolution, consumerism and globalisation have led to alienation and societal decline.
Antoine Gallimard said that the AI was failing to account for "the complexity of human experience" and was applying values "from the west coast of the US to say what is good and what is not good to think."