Pangram flags award-winning novel as largely AI written

https://x.com/Pangramed· Sep 22, 2026 · 4:43 AM UTC ·1 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 1 view

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Pangram, an AI detection tool, has identified a highly acclaimed French novel as being almost entirely written by artificial intelligence. The book has won multiple literary awards and is a strong contender for several major prizes, including the Prix Goncourt. Pangram asserts that the statistical probability of these detection results being false positives is negligible, raising questions about the author's honesty.

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▪The novel has won the Prix Fnac, Prix Méduse, and Prix Première Plume, and is a candidate for the Prix Goncourt, Femina, Médicis, and Décembre.
▪Pangram tested multiple passages from the manuscript and consistently received a 100% AI detection result.
▪The tool claims a false positive rate of 0.0041%, making the likelihood of twenty incorrect identifications statistically near zero.
▪The article suggests the author should have credited the AI as a co-author rather than presenting the work as solely human-written.

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Balance ton Claude@PangramedAvez-vous entendu parler de ce roman ? C’est le « phénomène de la rentrée littéraire ». Il est lauréat du Prix Fnac, du Prix Méduse, du Prix Première Plume, fortement pressenti pour le Prix Renaudot, et il est en lice pour les prix Goncourt, Femina, Médicis et Décembre. Ah oui, il est aussi en cours de traduction dans 20 langues. Eh bien selon Pangram, ce roman est rédigé presque intégralement par une Intelligence Artificielle. Nous avons testé plusieurs passages, à divers endroits du manuscrit, pour presque toujours le même résultat : 100% IA (cf les deux premiers chapitre dans le tweet ci-dessous). Rappelons que Pangram est de loin le détecteur d’IA le plus fiable : son taux de faux positifs est de 0,0041%, soit environ un texte humain sur 24 400.

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