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Comment by _diyar | Hacker News Reader

This story smells odd; why does anybody care about the accusations of an anonymous twitter account? A claim seemingly without evidence no less.

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>He is also a finalist for the most prestigious annual French language awards, the Goncourt and the Renaudot, set to be issued soon.

If I had a book that was hoping to win this award, anonymous accusations like this seem like a pretty easy way to shift the odds. It's impossible for the author to disprove the allegations and the award committee will want to 'avoid controversy'

Well, he has been evicted from the Goncourt.

He's been revealed as a flagrant plagiarist [1] and there's a lot of evidence that his writing before 2023 had very low pangram scores, and the other authors nominated did not have high pangram scores.

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

Because it's an anonymous twitter account dedicated to scanning and identifying AI usage in published works?

An account that has only existed for 4 months, whose only source for whenever something is plagiarised is a single company whose bread and butter is telling everybody what they want to hear, where most of the tweets barely gets a hundred likes should not be getting the level of coverage it has right now.

https://x.com/Pangramed

By all means test it out with some non-AI content and report back

I guess you can pick between that and the propaganda provided by the AI peddlers, they surely have nothing to gain telling everybody what they want to hear

No, according to the NYT article it is because a journalist behind this anon twitter account signal-boosted this:

> The controversy grew out of accusations from a little-followed, anonymous social media account, which a columnist at Le Figaro, a conservative daily newspaper, later revealed he partly ran.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world/europe/thelyson-ore...

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