🔬 Science 3d ago · Jasna Hodžić

He won a major short story prize. Then he was accused of using AI.

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He won a major short story prize. Then he was accused of using AI.
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Earlier this year, Jamir Nazir, a retired Trinidadian civil servant with no public writing career to speak of, won both the regional and overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize for “The Serpent in the Grove.” The story follows Vishnu, a Trinidadian man and alcoholic, who tries to kill his wife, Sita, in an attempt to escape his life.
Within days, the win sparked controversy, as readers, writers, and critics accused Nazir of using AI to write the story, citing evidence like its “heavily polished”

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