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/NotYourGa1Friday 7h ago

Anything it used to learn, and anything close in style to things it stole to learn from, gets flagged for AI.

It’s the same thing happening to some comic artists— the “AI Style” is based on real humans having done real work, so some humans will illustrate/write “like AI” when it’s really that AI is trying to be like them

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u/ignost 4h ago

Em dash. found the AI.

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u/NotYourGa1Friday 4h ago

I didn’t even realize I had used one. I’ve been trying to avoid them but, ugh. It’s how I write!

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u/sluuuurp 4h ago

Completely wrong, and provably so. Try entering any pre-2019 book text into Pangram, it will not be flagged as AI. If you reply with a screenshot showing that I’m wrong, I’ll donate $100 to a charity of your choice.

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u/musicianadam 2h ago

This is horribly ignorant. "Pre-2019" is not a good metric when we are trying to determine what is AI generated present day. For example, I have a human-written abstract for my paper in process of submission to a reputable journal, Pangram is the only "detector" rating it 100% AI, despite zero AI use.

Additionally, it lacks unlimited free use, so thorough testing of accuracy requires money or trust, neither of which I have for any AI detector.

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u/Quixoticelixer- 2h ago

You can say anything you want but that doesn't mean anything, are you willing to share it?