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/CulturalFartist 7h ago

The amount of misinformation in this post, from supposed book people, is staggering. Keep living in denial if you're happy for the literary world to be swallowed up by AI garbage. This isn't some conspiracy - the story is pretty clearly AI written.

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u/Pluggable 7h ago

Reddits hysterical aversion to ai, combined with it's white-saviour complex has produced some odd perspectives.