Another day, another literary scandal involving AI. It has been alleged that the judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been duped by an author using AI in his winning entry. Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which won for the Caribbean region, was then published in leading literary magazine Granta, along with other winning entries.
Almost immediately, it attracted accusations of being AI generated. Users on X posted screenshots of reports from AI detection tool Pangram, which claim 100% of the text was AI authored. Of course, the reliability of such tools can’t be guaranteed.
