What Is Happening to Publishing?

The big news in the world of writing today is the controversy over the award of a Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Prize to a story called “The Serpent in the Grove.” The piece was almost certainly co-authored by AI.

As of this morning, the magazine that published the piece (the prestigious literary journal Granta ) has not issued a retraction. Rather stunningly, in fact, Granta has just issued a statement about the affair that cites Claude as an arbiter of whether the story was AI-written or not!

Source: Nabeel S. Qureshi

More on the question of trust and experience later. Suffice to say that it does not take an AI-detection tool to spot the obvious ChatGPT-isms in the story.

The dead giveaway is the repetition of bizarre figures of speech. Mixed metaphors which sound nice at firs…