Tom Barrie (@thomasbarrie): "I wrote about how uninspiring the Commonwealth Short Story Prize was nearly a year ago, and now it’s been reported that they and Granta were allegedly hoodwinked by an AI story. Yikes… https://lithub.com/a-prize-winning-story-published-in-granta-was-very-likely-written-by-ai/"

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I wrote about how uninspiring the Commonwealth Short Story Prize was nearly a year ago, and now it’s been reported that they and Granta were allegedly hoodwinked by an AI story. Yikes…

If there really was a vibe shift, nobody told the judges of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Every year since 2012, the transnational organisation of former colonial states has run a short story competition, receiving thousands of entries, and every year they seem desperate to choose the most mawkish, didactic story they possibly can as its winner.

Tom Barrie

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A prize-winning story published in Granta was (very likely) written by AI.

It’s another grim day at the human factory. There is strong evidence to suggest that a prize-winning short story published this week in celebrated literary magazine Granta was entirely genera…

May 19

2:44 PM

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