GoKawiilMadras High Court orders probe into alleged AI-generated books at Tamil Nadu library
The Madras High Court has directed Tamil Nadu's anti-corruption agency to investigate claims that a newly opened public library in Coimbatore purchased hundreds of suspected AI-generated books, and to freeze accounts linked to the supplying publisher. The probe follows allegations by novelist Perumal Murugan that nearly 1,800 Tamil-language books at the Periyar Arivulagam library, built at a cost of about $34m, showed signs of dubious authorship, inflated prices and questionable ISBNs.
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The dispute has become politically charged, with the state government blaming the previous DMK administration for the purchases while the DMK denies wrongdoing, suggesting the probe could carry political stakes beyond publishing ethics. A minister's description of it as potentially India's first AI scam signals how such cases could force libraries and publishers everywhere to develop new ways of verifying authorship as AI-generated content proliferates.
- Madras High Court ordered an anti-corruption probe into alleged AI-generated book purchases at a Tamil Nadu library.
- Novelist Perumal Murugan flagged nearly 1,800 suspect Tamil books with questionable authors and ISBNs.
- The case has become politically contested, with rival parties blaming each other for the purchases.
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