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

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jalev · 1790334566 · focus · HN ↗
This isn't the first high profile case of a black person being reported with accusations of using AI this year[^1][^2]. Once or twice, sure, whatever. But a third time now? It's hard to think this isn't anything but targeted, especially given this particular case the group making the "claims" are entirely anonymous.
Anyway, here's the thread from twitter if people are interested: <a href="https://x.com/Pangramed/status/2102383484027171306?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/Pangramed/status/2102383484027171306?s=20
[^1]: <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/jerry-falade-book-deal-ai-racism-b3050738.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/featu...
[^2]: <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/jason-arday-resignation-letter-ai-generated-ztdxbqhc9" rel="nofollow">https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/jason-arday-re...
1. toasty228 · 1790335530 · focus · HN ↗
  How many non black people have been accused though?
  Why would they target these specific 3 black authors? I assume there are hundreds/thousands of successful black authors, 3 "this year" seems very small to call it a targeted attack
  1. vages · 1790337635 · focus · HN ↗
    Depends on how you define «they», but the public discourse in Norway the past two weeks have been defined by the Norwegian news outlet Manifest Media publishing a series of articles about AI “meat proxying”, starting whith an analysis of commentators employed by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The one found guilty was a white woman, and among the four non-guilty was one non-white man: <a href="https://www.manifestmedia.no/artikler/slik-testet-vi-nrk-for-ai-infeksjon" rel="nofollow">https://www.manifestmedia.no/artikler/slik-testet-vi-nrk-for... A follow-up article targetting (white male) professor Asle Toje found that he had probably used AI to write a much-discussed opinion piece: <a href="https://www.manifestmedia.no/artikler/pangram-tojes-omstridte-kronikk-er-trolig-skrevet-med-ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.manifestmedia.no/artikler/pangram-tojes-omstridt...
    Race has not been a part of the public conversation. Not sure if it would have been that way if the guilty person was non-white (but I'm slightly optimistic, given that the first person found guilty was a woman and gender was not part of the discussion).
    toasty228 · 1790356892 · focus · HN ↗
    And in france "they" just accused a high level right wing newspaper employee of using chatgpt to write his articles: <a href="https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/ia-jules-torres-chef-du-service-politique-au-jdd-redige-t-il-ses-articles-avec-chatgpt-20260925_X4YVW3OK6ZD75LBEK62UY5JJOQ/" rel="nofollow">https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/ia-jules-torres-chef-du-...

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