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Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

36 points · 87 comments · harscoat

  1. _diyar · · focus · HN ↗
    This story smells odd; why does anybody care about the accusations of an anonymous twitter account? A claim seemingly without evidence no less.
    1. pluc · · focus · HN ↗
      Because it's an anonymous twitter account dedicated to scanning and identifying AI usage in published works?
      1. jalev · · focus · HN ↗
        An account that has only existed for 4 months, whose only source for whenever something is plagiarised is a single company whose bread and butter is telling everybody what they want to hear, where most of the tweets barely gets a hundred likes should not be getting the level of coverage it has right now.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;Pangramed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;Pangramed

        1. stef25 · · focus · HN ↗
          By all means test it out with some non-AI content and report back
        2. pluc · · focus · HN ↗
          I guess you can pick between that and the propaganda provided by the AI peddlers, they surely have nothing to gain telling everybody what they want to hear
      2. _diyar · · focus · HN ↗
        No, according to the NYT article it is because a journalist behind this anon twitter account signal-boosted this:

        &gt; The controversy grew out of accusations from a little-followed, anonymous social media account, which a columnist at Le Figaro, a conservative daily newspaper, later revealed he partly ran.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;thelyson-orelien-ai-canada-haiti-france.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2026&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;thelyson-ore...

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