To use Pangram, you still need to have the right to copy the work
To accuse Thélyson Orélien of writing *C’était ça ou mourir* using AI, the anonymous account ‘Balance ton Claude’ claims to have submitted ‘several passages’ from the novel to Pangram, a tool specialising in detecting AI-generated text. *Libération* carried out its own verification, with its *CheckNews* section announcing that it had submitted various extracts from the book to Pangram. Le Monde also states that it… had half the book examined by Pangram. However, this action is not legally neutral: submitting a book to Pangram involves making a digital copy of it, an act that falls under the author’s exclusive right of reproduction and which is, in principle, prohibited without authorisation. In short, by admitting to having carried out this verification, the various media outlets cited have, at the very least, taken…