Bounty Raised to $100K for French Text Falsely Flagged as AI
Researcher Afinetheorem's public bounty—now raised to $100,000—for any pre-2022 French literary text flagged as 100% AI-generated remains unclaimed. The stunt challenges the reliability of AI text detectors on non-English content.
2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 3 related posts
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- $50k bounty unclaimed: no one has found pre-2022 French literature flagged 100% AI — Afinetheorem · 2026-09-23
- $1000 bounty draws no takers: critics of French AI-novel detector can't cite one false positive — birchlse · 2026-09-23
- Bounty hits $100k as no one produces pre-2022 French writing flagged 100% AI by detectors — Afinetheorem · 2026-09-23