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Literary AI-authorship suspicion spreads to a second major prize

The Atlantic, Oct 11 · read the original

The Atlantic reports suspicion that this year's Caine Prize for African Writing went to an AI-generated story, five months after the same detection methods flagged three regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

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