literature

A curated list of literary awards granted to works where AI was used or suspected in the writing process, spanning Japan's Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, electronic literature prizes, and poetry contests. It documents how major awards increasingly recognize AI-assisted writing, with hundreds of entries now flagged as partly AI-created.

A personal essay on how Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 story 'The Gold-Bug' introduced the author to cryptography, explaining substitution ciphers, frequency analysis, and the story's influence on figures like Claude Shannon and the foundations of information theory.

Wikipedia article about Blindsight, Peter Watts' 2006 hard science fiction novel exploring consciousness, artificial intelligence, and first contact, which won the Seiun Award and was nominated for the Hugo Award.

Goncourt has dropped Thélyson Orélien's novel due to AI allegations he denies and separate plagiarism accusations, prompting a discussion on AI assistance in writing.

The Claudyssey is a complete line-for-line English translation of Homer's Odyssey generated by the Claude AI model, edited by Chris Duffy, with annotations, an index, and a full audiobook, released as an open-source project.

An essay arguing that prompt-architecture is emerging as a new literary form designed for both LLMs and humans, treating text as an executable substrate rather than passive prose.

The Book Prize Index is a searchable index of award-winning books, designed to make literary prize records open and useful to readers, researchers, librarians, and publishers.

An essay exploring how stream-of-consciousness novels can teach neuroscientists about spontaneous thought, featuring psychologist Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva.

The article explores the current state of AI-generated writing, its detection, and the implications for education and literature, referencing the Granta controversy where a story suspected to be AI-written won a prize.

A tweet announcing a tentative dating of Sanskrit literature at Dharmamitra.org based on linguistic features, with a link to the platform that uses AI (including Gemini API) to support scholarly study and translation of ancient texts.

A winner of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been accused of using AI to generate the story, sparking debate about AI's role in literature and authenticity.

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk revealed in an interview that she used an AI language model to assist in writing her latest novel, highlighting AI's potential in literary fiction.