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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shahana Yasmin

Short story prize clears winners of AI allegations after month-long review

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The Commonwealth Foundation dismissed accusations that the short stories which won its literary prize this year were generated with artificial intelligence, saying a month-long review had found “AI wasn’t used” to write them.

Questions over the judging process for the award surfaced last month after readers and researchers alleged that several winning stories contained “AI tells”, including repetitive rhetorical constructions and phrasing commonly seen in machine-generated writing.

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