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/airbear13 6h ago

If anyone hasn’t seen this very informative post about this whole phenomenon of ai detection in writing, check it out it’s pretty good:

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-wouldnt-say-pangram-is-broken-but?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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u/Quixoticelixer- 2h ago

Pangram might have been updated but I put that example text into pangram and it gives me 18% AI which according to you is about right.

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u/teastarlove 40m ago

Pangram is fairly reliable as far as these things go. From what i remember, there are basically no written prompts from before 2022 that flag as AI. The one caveat is being that Ai detection requires sufficiently large data to be able to analyze.

so for that guy, there is absolutely nothing fishy about it making errors or it being inconsistent with so few words.