Writers accused of sounding like AI — podcast asks if literary sameness is the real culprit
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-28
A New Lines Magazine podcast with Caine Prize winner Tope Folarin and AI researcher Tuhin Chakrabarty examines AI accusations shaking literary prizes. Folarin argues African writers have long been trained to repeat poverty and immigration narratives to please London/NY editors — 'writers have basically been trained to produce certain kinds of work, and chatbots have been trained on that work' — so human writing itself is homogenizing and easier to misjudge as AI. The talk also covers detection software reliability and who defines literary authenticity.
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