The anti-AI writing police are everywhere. What are they looking for?

On October 6, the Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza won the Caine Prize for African Writing, for the short story “The Blue Fighter.” Less than a week later, The Atlantic published a piece declaring that the story’s narrator “has all the personality of a chatbot.” “The AI detector Pangram flags almost the entire story as AI-generated,” …