Pangram Claims Extensive AI Writing in Award-Listed Novel

Summary

Pangram says its artificial-intelligence detector found that a novel widely recognized during the French literary season was written almost entirely by AI. The post says the book has won the Prix Fnac, Prix Méduse and Prix Première Plume, is strongly tipped for the Prix Renaudot, and is shortlisted for the Goncourt, Femina, Médicis and Décembre prizes. It also says the novel is being translated into 20 languages. According to Pangram, the company tested passages from different parts of the manuscript and obtained the same result nearly every time: a 100% AI classification; the post refers to more than 20 such signals and specifically mentions the first two chapters. Pangram describes its detector as highly reliable and cites a claimed false-positive rate of 0.0041%, or about one human text in 24,400. It further says that, among 996,273 texts written before 2022, only 14 were classified as partially AI-written. Using those figures, the post calculates an extremely small probability that 20 passages from one book would all be false positives. The post ends by asking whether the author should have credited an AI as a co-author. The extracted text does not identify the novel or author, and it presents Pangram’s findings and statistical claims without independent verification.