The criticism intensified as other writers and readers weighed in. American author Daniel Friedman wrote on X that judges had failed to recognise “all hallmarks of AI writing”, describing the story as rambling, clichéd and plotless. Ethan Mollick, an AI professor at Wharton, wrote on Bluesky: “In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won Commonwealth Prize for Caribbean region.”
