Canada's literary awards say publishers are in best position to sniff out AI - CTV News

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Vauhini Vara, who has for years been investigating the impact of AI on writing, published a piece in The Atlantic over the weekend that suggested it was probable that “The Blue Fighter,” a Caine Prize-winning short story, was written using AI. The claim is based on a close reading of the story and the AI detector Pangram, after the story by Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza was awarded the 2026 Caine Prize. This is the third time this year that a major literary prize has been tainted by AI accusations: the Commonwealth Prize and the Prix Goncourt have also contended with issues around inhuman tools being used to generate text.