Award-Winning French Novel Detected as Nearly 100% AI-Written, Sparking Copyright Debate
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-09-22
A French novel that won the Prix Fnac and Prix Méduse, is shortlisted for the Goncourt, and is being translated into 20 languages has been detected by AI-detector Pangram as almost entirely AI-written, with samples from across the manuscript returning near-100% AI scores.
French commentators highlight an unsolvable legal question: what would a court say if someone pirated the book arguing AI-generated text isn't copyrightable? Even if AI authorship were proven, do the potentially numerous prompts written by the human who signed the work suffice to qualify them as an author — and where exactly does authorship begin, between "write me a whole book" and a detailed scene-by-scene instruction?
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