Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story

Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied allegations of using AI to write his short story, The Blue Fighter, which won the $10,000 Caine prize for African writers on 6 October. These claims emerged after The Atlantic published an article by Vauhini Vara, stating that software flagged the winning entry as almost completely AI-generated. Kundizeza rejects these assertions following the prestigious award, maintaining that the literary work was not produced by artificial intelligence software.