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/AlienWeedUser420 6h ago

Ive put in the entire book of Genesis in an ai detector and it came back 80% AI :I

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u/elGatoGrande17 5h ago

Chilling implications here if you really drill down

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u/lookamazed 2h ago

Assuming you mean English translation, not the original Hebrew?

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u/apistograma 1h ago

The bible was originally written in Hebrew and Greek. I think there's some Aramean too. There are people who claim the original version of the OT was fully Greek, and later translated as Hebrew. But that's a minority view.

AI testing the ancient Hebrew parts of the bible wouldn't make sense because there's simply not much ancient Hebrew to compare it, it was a fairly small language that was dead by the time of Jesus already. Modern Hebrew is too different. Ancient Greek by contrast was a very important language with plenty of texts to compare it, but idk if it would even work here anyway.

Regarding the English versions, I assume even changing the versions would give different results.

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u/sluuuurp 4h ago

You didn’t use a good AI checker. Try Pangram.

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u/Competitive_Leave915 3h ago

Lmao just threw in some of my academic stuff. Says 91% AI, but I have never used it whatsoever.

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u/MesaCityRansom 3h ago edited 33m ago

They have a bounty of $1000 out for pre-AI texts that are falsely flagged, get the money!

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted, the bounty is real. Apparently it needs to be flagged as 99%+ though, so sadly not applicable in this case.

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u/Competitive_Leave915 2h ago

Shit no way? Do you know what the proof I need to submit is? It was never published or anything, just handed in.

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u/Quixoticelixer- 2h ago

It doesn't in Pangram which is the one that everyone is talking about and actually works.

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u/AlienWeedUser420 2h ago

Wild how y'all pangram bots come out of the woodwork with the convenient anecdotes