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THE Commonwealth Foundation has announced it is conducting a review of its short story prize selection process, with the update coming after social media users accused a regional winner of using AI in their submission, The Hindu reported.
Social media users first spotted something unusual in the story, authored by the regional winner for the Caribbean region, Jamir Nazir, saying that it displayed signs of text generated by AI large language models (LLMs).
Others ran sections of the published short story through AI detectors in order to make the claim that it was machine-generated. Some users even claimed that the photo used to identify the author showed signs of being AI-generated or morphed.
The author has yet to respond to the allegations. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a prestigious international writing competition open to adult citizens of the commonwealth countries, including India.
