PARIS: It’s not surprising that Michel Houellebecq, the most-loved French nihilistic author in the world could not work with the new AI technology in use today because his ideas are too offensive to be repeated. The president of Gallimard, one of France’s leading publishing companies wrote an article on Thursday stating that he had asked Meta’s Llama to write a scene in the style of Houellebecq.Llama replied in French that it could not write something “offensive or discriminatory.” Instead, it offered to “respectful and inclusive” English scene. Houellebecq writes novels that present a very bleak outlook on contemporary society, where alienation and social decline are caused by sexual liberation, consumerism and globalisation.
Antoine Gallimard claimed AI was disregarding ‘the complexity of human experience’ and giving diktats from “the west coast of the US saying what is good and what is not good to think.”
