Last month, a short story “The Serpent in the Grove” was awarded a prize and published in the prestigious literary magazine, Granta. Within days screenshots of lines from the story started appearing on Substack and X accusing the author, Jamir Nazir, of using A.I. to write it. In response, Nazir told The Observer that because of health conditions, he writes using a speech-to-text function “followed by minimal keyboard editing.”
Did he use speech-to-text in an LLM interface? In Microsoft Word? Did he use some sort of generative A.I. to “clean up” the text, thereby spreading some A.I. gloss on it? Is he just lying his ass off?
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