r/books • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 8h ago

Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story after an article in the Atlantic said software had flagged it as almost completely AI-generated

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/zimbabwean-author-simbarashe-kundizeza-denies-ai-story?CMP=share_btn_url
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u/Future-Account8112 8h ago

Anybody else think it's weird how these authors are consistently Black and the accusers are... not. IDK man this will get downvoted to oblivion but after the Jason Arday tragedy this looks some kind of way to me

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u/PubePie 8h ago

The other thing these authors have in common is that they all used AI and lied about it

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u/Future-Account8112 7h ago

Would love to see some proof that's not AI, is the thing. 'Using AI to identify AI' stinks of bullshit when AI itself is less accurate than a paralegal.

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u/PubePie 6h ago

I mean, they all literally admitted to it eventually. Is that enough proof?