In the continuing conversation about possible AI use in winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Atlantic asked a Pangram research scientist to put all of the past winning stories into the AI detector. (In a separate Atlantic podcast, Pangram co-founder Max Spero claims that the tool has a 1-in-10,000 false-positive rate.) Only four stories in the prize’s 14-year history were flagged as being wholly or partly AI-generated—three stories from this year and one from last year. The magazine states, “100 percent of the text in [Jamir] Nazir’s and [Edward DeMicoli]’s stories was flagged as likely to have been […]
