French-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien faces accusations of using AI to write his debut novel C'était ça ou mourir, which is being considered for prestigious literary awards. An anonymous X account and AI-detection tool Pangram flagged the text as entirely AI-generated, though Orélien denies the allegations and attributes his poetic style to Caribbean literary traditions. The scandal has prompted the literary industry to question the reliability of AI-detection tools and grapple with how to verify authorship.