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Africa: Author Simbarashe Kundizeza Cleared of AI Allegations

Headline via allAfrica · first report 12 Nov, 18:21 IST, latest 12 Nov, 18:44 IST

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What we know

2 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from allAfrica at 12 Nov, 18:21 IST; the latest is from The Guardian at 12 Nov, 18:44 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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First report12 Nov, 18:21 IST
Latest report12 Nov, 18:44 IST
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[DW] Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has been cleared of allegations that he had used artificial intelligence to write his award-winning short story, The Blue Fighter. The reports had emerged after an article in The Atlantic cited results from an AI…
After a month-long investigation it was concluded that Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter, which won the £10,000 Caine prize, was ‘human-written’Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has been cleared of using AI to write a prize-winning short story, after…

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