“Obvious signs of AI”: Doubts expressed about short story prize winner

A few syntactic ticks – and the judgment of an AI recognition platform – have caused excitement over the possibility that a short story that won a prestigious literary prize was written by AI.

The foundation that awarded the prize and Granta, the magazine that published the winning story, said they had investigated the allegations but had not concluded whether they were true.

“It may be that the jury has now awarded an AI plagiarism – we don’t know yet and perhaps never will,” said Granta editor Sigrid Rausing.

“The Serpent in the Grove” was chosen as the winning entry for the Commonwealth Prize from the Caribbean on Saturday and was published in Granta magazine.

With “a voice of restraint and quiet authority,” said the jury, the film tells an intense episode in a difficult marriage and is set in a farmhouse next to an enchanted grove.

Shortly after publication, internet detectives showed up – and a few literary detectives