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FeteCommuniste 4 hours ago

The winner of a short-story prize from Granta (well known literary fiction publisher) is believed to be AI-written:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/20/granta-magazin...

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cautiouscat 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So the author didn’t claim it was? It’s just assumed?

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Forgeties79 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

1 unverified example with quite the unique, if true, circumstances against the undoubtedly countless dismissed attempts (not to mention those never submitted because they’re trash) hardly meets the bar being established here.

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letmevoteplease 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Even if 99% of generations are trash, why does that matter? Just throw out the failures and keep the good ones, like any writer. Here is the text of the winning story: https://granta.com/the-serpent-in-the-grove/ If you've ever used ChatGPT to generate stories, you will find the style unmistakable. It's cloying to me, but it did manage to fool some stuffy literary judges.

	▲	altmanaltman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If 99% generations are trash then it means it sucks at storytelling and is not good at it contary to what was claimed in the comment.