The Thélyson Orélien case: copyright law is more modern than the slanderers
The case could spark an interesting debate, but unfortunately begins with a regrettable trial of intent. The anonymous X account ‘Balance ton Claude’ claims to have identified, using the Pangram detector, dozens of AI-generated passages in Thélyson Orélien’s *C’était ça ou mourir *. To support its claim, it ran four texts published by the author in 2014 through the same tool: all scored 0% AI. Pangram is a credible… detector: its performance has been favourably assessed in several independent studies. Its results therefore constitute a serious indication of AI involvement. However, on their own, they do not allow us to determine either the nature or the extent of this involvement, and cannot, therefore, be admitted as evidence in a court of law. Creative contribution or not, that is the question…