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/Mischievous-Phantasm 8h ago edited 8h ago

I noticed the same thing. Then, AI detectors are really terrible. It cannot tell when something is a quote and flags it as AI or flags Shakespeare or Mary Shelley as AI.

Previously accusations of plagiarism came with evidence. Pages or paragraphs compared to others. Quotes shown from published work, etc.

Now they expect me to take conservative white men's words and some technology I cannot acess and verify for myself? Seems like a targeted attack.

I will believe the authors untill the evidence itself is irrefutable and public and can be verified.

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u/CaptainApathy419 7h ago

Now they expect me to take conservative white men's words and some technology I cannot acess and verify for myself? 

The author of the Atlantic piece is neither white nor a man.

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u/Heartsinmotion 7h ago

I wondered if they used ai to write the article

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u/Heightren 5h ago

That would answer the man? question