New Delhi, May 26 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with allegations that this year's winner of the Commonwealth Foundation prize for Caribbean regional short fiction had been written using artificial intelligence (AI).

Not only had the winning story, 'The Serpent in the Grove,' passed through several rounds of internal review before being selected as the winner from over 7,000 submissions, it had also been published in Granta, a literary magazine that has carried work by the likes of Ishiguro, Rushdie and Zadie Smith.

The public response to these revelations has spanned the full range of emotions-from indignation at the author for trying to pass his work off as original to anger with the technology itself for encroaching upon a doma...