Machine-translated pun exposes the pre-AI plagiarism in the AI-novel controversy
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-23
Replying to Matt Clancy: among the pre-AI plagiarism evidence in the AI prize-novel controversy, the 2013 original's pun on "coming out of the woodwork" (riffing on the author's last name, Woods) was machine-translated verbatim — and makes no sense when "boiserie" is substituted in French.
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