480 pages Text(s) by Thibaut Giraud (Monsieur Phi) Designed by André Sanchez 20.5 x 14 cm Language: French Paperback Publisher: Grasset 2025
La parole aux machines (When Machines Speak) invites readers to confront a profound shift: for the first time in history, we can no longer be certain whether the words we read were written by a human being.
Less than a decade ago, the idea would have seemed absurd. Language, coherent, creative, and meaningful, was humanity’s exclusive domain. Today, that monopoly is over. Machines speak, and they do so fluently. Powered by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, these artificial neural networks have learned to predict words, and, in doing so, to converse, to argue, to imagine.
In this sharp, playful, and thought-provoking essay, philosopher Thibaut Giraud, creator of M.Phi, explores the origins and implications of this linguistic revolution. What happens when the power of language, the very essence of what makes us human, is shared with machines? And what does it mean for the future of thought, creativity, and truth itself?
