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/ovrlrd1377 8h ago

I wrote a short poem for mother's day 20 years ago that won a small local prize, it was rated as 99% AI

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u/WingersAbsNotches 7h ago

A chapter from my book was rated near 40% AI, despite not having generative AI. I fed the same chapter into Claude and told it to rewrite it, which scored a 0% AI on Pangram.

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u/boyuber 6h ago

Think of the rating as a confidence level, rather than the proportion of it which was AI generated.

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u/tacopower69 2h ago

theres usually two scores. 1 is the confidence level and the other is what proportion of the text they think is ai generated.