The Lede
The Lede
New Lines Magazine
The AI Accusations Shaking the Literary World
46 minutes Posted Oct 26, 2026 at 11:26 am.
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On this month’s episode of Global Insights on The Lede, author and Caine Prize winner Tope Folarin and AI researcher Tuhin Chakrabarty join Kwangu Liwewe Agyei to discuss the AI accusations that have hit major literary prizes this year, why African writers feel pressure to tell the stories their editors in London and New York expect, and whether detection software can conclusively tell human writing from machine-made text.
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