Pangram.ai classifies Jamir Nazir's award-winning short story 'The Serpent in the Grove' as 100 percent AI-generated following its Caribbean win in the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Pangram.ai flagged nine distinct segments as machine-generated.
#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICKWell, that's a Turing Test of a sort.
(But gosh is the AI writing obvious if you use these systems at all - and this is obviously ChatGPT writing, not Claude)
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
100% AI on Pangram, which, although it has false negatives, seems to have very few false positives according to independent research https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5407424
Ethan Mollick@emollickWell, that's a Turing Test of a sort. (But gosh is the AI writing obvious if you use these systems at all - and this is obviously ChatGPT writing, not Claude)
#228Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦@BLACKHCThis is crazy. How did no one notice 🤯
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
#517Andrew Curran@ANDREWCURRAN_Link to the story: https://granta.com/the-serpent-in-the-grove/
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
#517Andrew Curran@ANDREWCURRAN_
gabe@allgarbledLiterary journals are now publishing, and awarding prizes to, AI written stories. Surprised this made it into Granta!
#867Alexander Doria@DORIALEXANDERGuess it will be mostly a reveal moment how much people care about institutions (turns out, not much).
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
#1050Tuhin Chakrabarty@TUHINCHAKRYes 100% by @pangramlabs. @GrantaMag has published some of the best writers of our times such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Junot Díaz
We are living in hell !!
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
@nabeelqu @GrantaMag What struck me is how purple the whole story is. There is some personification/ metaphor at every 2 sentences. How on earth did this win a prize?
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
#1050Tuhin Chakrabarty@TUHINCHAKRIn the light of this , resharing @NewYorker article from Vauhini Vara :) I am not big on the inevitability train discourse for AI but as community we need to be careful about what we publish.
Ofcourse there can be value in AI generated fiction but without disclosure it feels fraudulent.
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
Tuhin Chakrabarty@TuhinChakrIn the light of this , resharing @NewYorker article from Vauhini Vara :) I am not big on the inevitability train discourse for AI but as community we need to be careful about what we publish. Ofcourse there can be value in AI generated fiction but without disclosure it feels fraudulent.
#1220rohit@KRISHNANROHITExtraordinary
gabe@allgarbledLiterary journals are now publishing, and awarding prizes to, AI written stories. Surprised this made it into Granta!
#1281Jay Hack@MATHEMAGIC1ANI've heard pushback that AI will never be able to create art since the context of the artist, and their history, is a crucial part of understanding their work
IMO the artist's context is just a story you tell yourself and is probably largely fabricated in many scenarios
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
#1332Prakash@8TEAPI😂 the humanists hate AI so much they didn’t familiarize themselves with it enough to identify the enemy and are now unfortunately getting “mogged” (technical Gen Z term equivalent to milennial “pwned”)
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
@dioscuri There's also just the basic issue of cheating in a contest. It's obviously (implicitly) a contest for human-written stories, and somebody using GPT to pretend to have written one violates the rules, just as someone using Stockfish in a chess tournament does...
Henry Shevlin@dioscuriWe’ll see if this turns out to be true, but equally interesting is why we care if literature is AI-generated. I suspect part of it comes back to consciousness. A lot of great art is about translating and conveying interiority, but if the inside is empty, the structure is hollow.
@emollick Yeah, it's not even subtle.
I think a pernicious side effect of the literary world being so anti-AI is they're very vulnerable to attacks exactly like this. Most of the tech people I know would immediately clock the prose as GPT slop because they use it so much.
Ethan Mollick@emollickWell, that's a Turing Test of a sort. (But gosh is the AI writing obvious if you use these systems at all - and this is obviously ChatGPT writing, not Claude)
#1397Nabeel S. Qureshi@NABEELQUWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize).
"Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing.
A major milestone for AI, at any rate...
@GrantaMag
Anybody who has used GPT 4o for more than 5 minutes will recognize this voice:
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelquWell, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
#1397Nabeel S. Qureshi@NABEELQUPangram thinks so too:
gabe@allgarbledLiterary journals are now publishing, and awarding prizes to, AI written stories. Surprised this made it into Granta!
