New Statesman | Art against the machine by Nabeel S. Qureshi

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The essay argues that the recent win of the AI‑generated short story “The Serpent in the Grove” in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize marks a grim literary milestone, exposing a loophole in prize rules that forbid AI assistance and prompting a scandal that demands stronger detection and enforcement, much like the anti‑cheating measures adopted in chess after high‑profile breaches. While AI can now produce large volumes of plausible prose—often littered with odd metaphors, repetitive “not X, but Y” constructions, and a humming‑like mechanical cadence identified by tools such as Pangram—the author stresses that true literary merit remains a fundamentally human endeavor rooted in lived experience, originality, and cultural depth, which AI cannot yet replicate. Consequently, literature should be viewed as an intrinsically human activity that will retain, and perhaps even increase, its value as AI dominates more instrumental fields; preserving the integrity of literary prizes and encouraging diverse, human‑authored work is essential to prevent a “mode collapse” where all writing sounds alike and to safeguard authentic cultural production.

Read more: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2026/05/art-against-the-machine

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Inspired by a post Elsewhere, I started looking for a Yiddish pangram. Couldn't find one. So I had a go at writing one:

איך וויל א חצי טרינק מן הסתם אויף דער שיכור טמבל קעץ פון זגרעב - לחיים!

Thoughts? (May not be very good Yiddish, my Yiddish is not great...)

#Yiddish #Pangram

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Pen and Ink Challenge – Jan 20

#penandinkchallengejan26 #pangram Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

http://itsjamesd.com/2026/01/20/pen-and-ink-challenge-jan-20/

Pangram tool: pangram checker and random pangram generator . That is, you can check whether the pangram sentence is being created here. And if you can't create a pangram sentence, you can create a pangram sentence by clicking the automatic button. You will have the opportunity to create sentences as you wish.

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Markova's quartz sphinx cub glowed joyfully.

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New benchmark: Pangram 3.0 AI detector now claims 99.98% accuracy and introduces a four‑tier usage model, from casual checks to enterprise‑grade analysis. Curious how it stacks up against ChatGPT and other language models? Dive into the details. #AIDetector #Pangram #99.98Accuracy #ChatGPT

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Arabic pangram

نص حكيم له سر قاطع وذو شأن عظيم مكتوب على ثوب أخضر ومغلف بجلد أزرق

Wise text with a decisive secret and great significance, written on a green cloth and wrapped in blue leather

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