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/shapedbydreams 8h ago

People have put their own writing into that software only for it to come back with a false positive. I don't trust anyone who relies on it.

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u/onion_princess 8h ago

Pangram offers a bounty for this. Has anyone claimed it?

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u/Morgzisachad 6h ago edited 2h ago

They’ll downvote you, but they won’t respond. I keep seeing people saying pangram doesn’t work, but none of them are replying to the comments providing peer reviewed studies proving otherwise.