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The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

中文摘要

文学界未做好AI准备,格兰塔杂志入围短篇小说《林中之蛇》被指由大模型生成,其文风展现出典型AI写作特征。

English Summary

The literary world faces an AI crisis as Granta’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize selection, "The Serpent in the Grove," appears to be written by an AI-powered language model.

Original Excerpt

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of the hallmarks of LLM-generated prose - mixed metaphors, anaphora, lists of threes. (I'm aware this, too, is a list of threes, and I promise I wrote this post myself, unassisted, as I write all things.) I'll admit I was initially unconvinced by the allegation that Nazir's story had been generated by AI. I know people are using … Read the full story at The Verge.