Magazine Non Grata (@magazinenongrata): "Looks like A.I. won a Granta prize for literature. Doesn’t surprise us. A.I. is not much different than the safe, staid, sophomoric pudding the old lit mags have been pushing for the last decade. We refuse to let the people down the way they have.

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Looks like A.I. won a Granta prize for literature. Doesn’t surprise us. A.I. is not much different than the safe, staid, sophomoric pudding the old lit mags have been pushing for the last decade. We refuse to let the people down the way they have.

— Editorial team, Non Granta

Ted Gioia

People are claiming this is a validation of AI writing. But maybe it’s also a commentary on the state of literary prizes and how they are judged.

Just imagine a prompt that asked: “Hey, bot, write me a story that could win the Commonwealth Prize.” And, presto….

Of course, the judges might have been bots too. That would be rather fitting. T…

May 18

10:52 PM

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