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Is It or Isn’t It? How Generative AI is Poisoning the Literary Well For Everyone

An AI-detection tool flagged the 2026 Caine Prize winner's story as machine-written, making it the third major literary prize this year tangled in AI accusations. The board's chair says she wants human proof, not software, and the case echoes a French controversy where similar claims against a Black novelist proved politically convenient.

— via Literary Hub, James Folta


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