One of the winners of this year's prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been accused of using artificial intelligence to write his entry "Serpent in the Grove". Does the controversy signal a new era of literary "AI slop" – or merely a crisis in reading?
The Commonwealth Foundation announced the winners of its prestigious Short Story Prize on May 13. Five winning stories – one each from Africa, Asia, the USA and Canada, and the Caribbean and Pacific regions – were selected before the announcement of an overall winner. Aside from a small cash award, each writer's story is published on the website of famed London-based literary magazine Granta.
