The literary world is facing a major debate after allegations that one or more regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize may have used artificial intelligence. The controversy began after Jamir Nazir, a Trinidadian writer, won for his story “The Serpent in the Grove,” which was later criticized online for sounding unnatural, overly polished and possibly AI-generated. The story was published in Granta, and readers quickly bean pointing to strange metaphors, repeat

YouTube is taking a much stronger stance on AI-generated content as the platform faces a growing wave of realistic synthetic videos, deepfakes, and misleading media. In a major update announced this week, the company revealed that it will now automatically label videos that make “significant photorealistic AI” use, even if creators fail to disclose it themselves. The move marks one of the most aggressive transparency efforts yet by a major social media platform as generative

A major literary controversy has unfolded around the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize after several regional winners faced online accusations of using artificial intelligence in their work. The main focus has been Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove,” which won the Caribbean regional category and was published on Granta’s website on May 12. The story, set in rural Trinidad, follows a struggling farmer, a silenced young wife, and a grove that seems to hold buried memori

The publishing world is facing a growing problem that feels both immediate and unsettling: books suspected of being written with artificial intelligence are already slipping into the market, and many in the industry are not confident they can stop it. That anxiety exploded with the controversy surrounding Shy Girl , a horror novel by Mia Ballard that was first self published in February 2025, later released in the UK in November 2025, and then set for a US publication before

TikTok is rolling out a new set of tools that give users direct control over how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, signaling a notable shift for a platform originally built around human creativity and viral user-generated videos. The update centers on a dedicated AI-generated content slider inside the app’s “Manage Topics” tool, where users already customize how often they see content related to categories like dance, sports, and food. As AI-generated v