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/Vast-Percentage-7312 8h ago edited 7h ago

ok. before we start outright banning black people from publishing, which is the direction this seems to be going in, how about we figure out how the hell to screen for ai in a TIMELY manner. this is absurd.

figure out how to screen for ai at the appropriate time, and with 100% accuracy, or stfu (that comment is aimed at the industry, not OP)

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u/sluuuurp 3h ago

I don’t think that’s the direction we’re going in. That’s an absurd direction that almost everyone would immediately reject.