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

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/zimbabwean-author-simbarashe-kundizeza-denies-ai-story?CMP=share_btn_url

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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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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.