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  • I love learning about an alleged "uproar" in my own country from a BBC link shared on HN.
    by thrance
  • Why use AI to write at all, I wonder? Writing is the fun part. I'm not interested in having my bot eat my ice cream for me either.

    I do use AI to help learn concepts, to grammar check and spell check, and to find errors. And I always tell it not to rewrite anything. I'll fix it myself, thank you.

    It's always fun to see stuff I wrote decades ago get flagged as genai, though.

    by beej71
  • Note 'Balance ton Claude' is an oblique reference to 'Balance ton porc', what's commonly considered the French equivalent of the US #MeToo cultural event
    by bonsai_spool
  • This story smells odd; why does anybody care about the accusations of an anonymous twitter account? A claim seemingly without evidence no less.
    by _diyar
  • This isn't the first high profile case of a black person being reported with accusations of using AI this year[^1][^2]. Once or twice, sure, whatever. But a third time now? It's hard to think this isn't anything but targeted, especially given this particular case the group making the "claims" are entirely anonymous.

    Anyway, here's the thread from twitter if people are interested: https://x.com/Pangramed/status/2102383484027171306?s=20

    [^1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/featu...

    [^2]: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/jason-arday-re...

    by jalev
  • There's important extra context on this case in that the author has been discovered to be a flagrant plagiarist. He won an award in 2014 for a work which was almost entirely ripped from a French novel in the 60s.

    https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2026-09-23/thelyson...

    by suddenlybananas
  • This was discussed a lot on the news here. Couple of authors feed their pre AI books to pangram and also got false positive. Maybe it is AI, maybe not. But using AI to accuse someone else of using AI is ironic.
    by Sytten
  • I remain convinced the whole notion of AI-detection algorithms with any semblance of precision and accuracy is a con.

    Critics say the author almost exclusively relied on AI to create his work, based on Pangram’s findings.

    Pangram says it “is trained specifically to detect the latest AI models from frontier labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, xAI, and more. [They] benchmark against 26 models (so far)…”.

    I can probably list more than 26 models off the top of my head. Granted, some models have been distilled against others and will be “detectable” but that’s NOWHERE near a large enough sample size to be reliable in 2026.

    You or I could get a flag by that detector in our first attempt, and it wouldn’t take long for a false positive against enough attempts of truly original thought either.

    The only thing I’d actually believe is things like Claude’s text watermarking system. However, those systems will never be present for EVERY model, so reliable blanket detection remains an impossibility.

    The entropy in written text of meaningful length is simply too great for detection to be reliably possible in 2026, especially considering the changes the author can make.

    by _fw

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