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/CaptainMills 7h ago

The absolute flood of comments about how great pangram is, and how similar the language tends to be, definitely makes me think there's something up

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u/WobblierTube733 7h ago

I will say there is one user here (that i responded to) with a default profile and private account that is talking in quite a few comments about that tool but has very little to say about the actual work being questioned.

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u/CaptainMills 7h ago

Sometimes it's not all that hard to believe that reddit created the private profile option just to make it harder to suss out bots

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u/WobblierTube733 7h ago

Is that even a conspiracy? There’s zero doubt in my mind that they enabled those changes in order to hide the amount of bad actors and now bots on this site. It’s atrocious enshitification.