Is The Serpent in the Grove, one of the five regional winners of this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize, generated by AI? The story’s author, Trinidadian writer Jamir Nazir, has a limited online presence and the work, some readers feel, bears the hallmarks of AI writing. The literary magazine Granta, which does not judge the prize but publishes all five winning entries, is reported to have submitted the short story to Anthropic’s Claude.ai, which concluded, in the words of the magazine’s publisher Sigrid Rausing, “that it was ‘almost certainly not produced unaided by a human’”. Nazir denies that the text was written by AI, questions the accuracy of so-called AI detectors, and writes that the story was inspired by memories from his childhood.
今年英联邦短篇小说奖的五个地区获奖作品之一《林中之蛇》是否由AI生成？作者、特立尼达作家贾米尔•纳齐尔(Jamir Nazir)在网上的公开信息很少，而一些读者认为，这篇作品带有AI写作的典型特征。据报道，文学杂志《格兰塔》虽不参与该奖项评审，但会刊登全部五篇获奖作品。该刊已将这篇短篇小说提交给Anthropic的Claude.ai。杂志出版人西格丽德•罗辛(Sigrid Rausing)表示，Claude.ai的结论是，这篇小说“几乎可以肯定不是在没有人类协助的情况下创作的”。纳齐尔否认文本由AI写成，质疑所谓AI检测工具的准确性，并表示这篇小说的灵感来自他童年的记忆。