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Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza denied using AI to write his short story The Blue Fighter after an Atlantic article claimed it was artificially generated, days after it won the Caine prize for African writers.
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Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza denied using AI to write his short story The Blue Fighter after an Atlantic article claimed it was artificially generated, days after it won the Caine prize for African writers.
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Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story
Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story
Guardian AI · 14 Oct 2026, 18:34
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