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The Nobel Laureate’s recent comments on her use of AI in ‘preliminary research’ have hit a nerve – and rightly so

The Nobel Laureate’s recent comments on her use of AI in ‘preliminary research’ have hit a nerve – and rightly so, says Helen Charman Yesterday was a particularly bad day for writers and readers with concerns about artificial intelligence. First, claims circulated that ‘The Serpent in the Grove’ by Jamir Nazir, the Caribbean regional winner of the 2026 Granta Commonwealth Short Story Prize, was predominantly AI-generated: prize organisers said they ‘take these claims seriously and are committed to responding to them’, and while Nazir is said to deny using AI in this instance, Granta temporaril

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