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Granta cuts Commonwealth prize partnership after AI dispute tests literary judging rules

Granta's break with the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is less a row about one winning story than a warning about the institutions around new writing. A literary magazine can publish a prize winner without choosing the winner; a foundation can run a judging process without using automated detection; and when the authorship of a text is questioned, both can find that trust is no longer enough as a public rule.

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