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The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have...

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The literary world isn’t prepared for AI
Source: The Verge
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Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI.

Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of the hallmarks of LLM-generated prose - mixed metaphors, anaphora, lists of threes. (I'm aware this, too, is a list of threes, and I promise I wrote this post myself, unassisted, as I write all things.) I'll admit I was initially unconvinced by the allegation that Nazir's story had been generated by AI. I know people are using …

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