‘Polished and confident, with a melodic voice that lingers long after the final line, Jamir Nazir’s prose pulses with a voice of restraint and quiet authority.’ So said Sharma Taylor, regional judge for the Caribbean winner of this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize, The Serpent in the Grove. AI is very good at producing, at scale, exactly the sort of stuff that such critics will affect to like.

‘Polished and confident, with a melodic voice that lingers long after the final line, Jamir Nazir’s prose pulses with a voice of restraint and quiet authority.’ So said…

LONDON: For “The Serpent in the Grove”, another beast slithered in — AI plagiarism. Literary world erupted after a Commonwealth prize-winning short story set in rural Trinidad was…