Caine Prize winner denies story was written by AI
Simbarashe Kundizeza has rejected claims that his prize-winning short story "The Blue Fighter" was produced with artificial intelligence, after an Atlantic article said software had flagged it as largely AI-generated.
The Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write "The Blue Fighter," the short story that won the Caine Prize for African Writing on 6 October, according to the Guardian.
Five days after the prize was announced, the Atlantic published a piece by the author and journalist Vauhini Vara, headlined, as cited by the Guardian, to suggest that yet another literary prize winner appeared to be AI-generated. The article reported that detection software had flagged the story as almost completely written by artificial intelligence.
Kundizeza has pushed back against the claim, telling the Guardian he did not use AI to write the story. The Guardian's report does not include further detail on his explanation or on the specific evidence cited by Vara.
The Caine Prize is one of the most prominent awards for African writers working in English. No further comment from the prize's organisers is included in the source material available to this desk.
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