News Summary

• "The Serpent in the Grove" was a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
• The story exhibits all the common AI-writing “tells” familiar to anyone who has ever scrolled through a restaurant’s Instagram feed.
• The preoccupation with who the author might be distracts us from the real casualty of AI-written fiction: the reader.
• If AI can be used to write a story, an AI agent could presumably be cloistered with only the text that it has generated.