AI accusations shake literary prizes from Caine to Goncourt: who decides what's human?
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-26
A New Lines Magazine podcast features Caine Prize winner Tope Folarin and AI researcher Tuhin Chakrabarty discussing the AI accusations roiling literary prizes — from the Caine Prize to the Goncourt — and the unreliable AI-detection software behind them.
Folarin offers a structural insight: African writers have long been trained to write the narrow set of stories (poverty, immigration) that appeal to London and New York editors, and "chatbots have been trained on that work" — making their fiction more likely to appear formulaic and be falsely flagged as AI-generated. The core question: who should decide what counts as human writing?
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