1/3 The current controversy over the winner of the prestigious Commonwealth #shortstory prize, prompted by the presence of supposedly obvious indicators of #AI plagiarism and fraud, points to a much wider issue than simply whether the text in question, ‘The Serpent in the Grove’, was created by a human (from the #globalsouth) or by a #machine. https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-read-postcolonial-writing https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/05/15/trinidadian-cops-commonwealth-short-story-prize-caribbean/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/19/commonwealth-short-story-prize-winner-doubts-ai-artificial-intelligence It’s in response to precisely these kind of #human vs AI debates that the design-art collective COPODE and I have launched the 100% Inhuman Made badges project: http://garyhall.squarespace.com/100-inhuman-made-badges/