Caine Prize winner flagged 99% AI by Pangram, but prize's probe finds no evidence of AI use
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-12
- This year's Caine Prize top-winning story was flagged by AI detector Pangram as 99% (95–100% range) AI-generated.
- The prize ran an investigation — digital forensics on manuscript files, interviews with the author, testimony from the publisher and all five judges, months of file history and 27 hours of documented edits — and concluded there was "no evidence" of AI use, arguing detectors produce false positives especially for non-Western writers.
- Adding irony, observers note the prize's official Instagram statement itself appears blatantly AI-generated.
- A signature controversy on AI detection reliability vs human judgment.
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