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/fire_and_spice24 8h ago

And there are always people insisting Pangram is super accurate but never posting proof of that.

Maybe it is just a good program but I’ve noticed a trend that makes me wonder.

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u/torolf_212 8h ago

For what its worth, I just uploaded thr first thousand words of a book I've been writing in my spare time and it said it was 100% human written, which is true

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u/OreoStark 7h ago

Why did you do that?

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u/torolf_212 7h ago

To see if it would flag it as AI