French literary prize contender detected as ~100% AI-written by Pangram
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-09-22
- A breakout novel of France's fall literary season has won the Prix Fnac, Prix Méduse and Prix Première Plume, is shortlisted for the Renaudot and in the running for the Goncourt, Femina and Médicis — and is being translated into 20 languages.
- Pangram, an AI-detection tool, sampled passages across the manuscript and found nearly all of them to be 100% AI-generated.
- Hugging Face's Aymeric Roucher shared it as a joke benchmark idea: how many top literary prizes can your model win?
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