Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza won the Caine Prize for African Writing on 6 October, taking £10,000 for a short story called 'The Blue Fighter'. Five days later, The Atlantic carried allegations that the story had been produced with generative AI. Within a week, the prize had opened a review, and the writer was defending work he says grew out of a residency in Ghana and his own father's life. "The Blue Fighter is my work, and I stand by it completely," he said in a statement on 14 October, adding that he did not use generative AI to write it. No finding has been published, and no evidence of AI use has been made public.
\n\nThe journey from laureate to suspect took nine days. It is no longer an isolated episode, and the pattern it belongs to has made recognition itself a hazard for writers who have done nothing wrong.
\n\nThe Commonwealth Short Story Prize went first. In May, after a researcher pointed at passages in Trinidadian writer Jamir Nazir's 'The Serpent in the Grove', a research scientist at the detection company Pangram told reporters that three of the five regional winners appeared partly or wholly machine-made, putting figures on two…
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