{"id":23161,"date":"2026-05-19T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/obvious-markers-of-ai-doubts-raised-over-winner-of-short-story-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:37:17","slug":"obvious-markers-of-ai-doubts-raised-over-winner-of-short-story-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/obvious-markers-of-ai-doubts-raised-over-winner-of-short-story-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Obvious markers of AI\u2019: doubts raised over winner of short story prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granta publisher says \u2018perhaps we never will know\u2019 true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize <\/p>\n<p>A few syntactical tics \u2013 and the verdict of an AI detection platform \u2013 have sparked furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written by AI.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation that awarded the prize and Granta, the magazine that published the winning <a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/the-serpent-in-the-grove\/\">story<\/a>, said they had considered the allegations and had not reached a conclusion as to whether they were true.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/may\/19\/commonwealth-short-story-prize-winner-doubts-ai-artificial-intelligence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e60060331fe40c724bf285e66b4146d6017b30c8\/243_0_4437_3549\/master\/4437.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e01e0ecfd447a8922f740c5f85032e41\" title=\"\u2018Obvious markers of AI\u2019: doubts raised over winner of short story prize\" \/>Granta publisher says \u2018perhaps we never will know\u2019 true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize<br \/>\nA few syntactical tics \u2013 and the verdict of an AI detection platform \u2013 have sparked furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written by AI.<br \/>\nThe foundation that awarded the prize and Granta, the magazine that published the winning story, said they had considered the allegations and had not reached a conclusion as to whether they were true. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granta publisher says \u2018perhaps we never will know\u2019 true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize A few syntactical tics \u2013 and the verdict of an AI detection platform \u2013 have sparked furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written by AI. The foundation that awarded the prize &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/obvious-markers-of-ai-doubts-raised-over-winner-of-short-story-prize\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Obvious markers of AI\u2019: doubts raised over winner of short story prize<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}