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Caine Prize Clears Zimbabwean Author of AI Allegations

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Simbarashe Kundizeza won the £10,000 Caine Prize for African writers with his short story The Blue Fighter.

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AI-detection software Pangram previously claimed the story was almost entirely machine-generated.

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Caine Prize organisers launched a month-long investigation involving metadata analysis and interviews.

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Chair Ellah Wakatama confirmed the evidence proved the story was genuinely human-written.

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