Prize-winning French novel accused of AI ghostwriting; publisher denial mocked by AI practitioners
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-22
A French novel that swept literary awards is accused of being AI-written; the publisher calls it "fake news" and dismisses AI detectors.
Afinetheorem pushes back: anyone who uses AI frequently would spot the patterns immediately, and the denial will embarrass them. He adds that "AI detectors don't work" is outdated—recent research shows detection accuracy has improved—and the "biased against Creole" objection fails since no pre-2023 text could have every passage tagged 100% AI.
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