Organizers of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and British literary magazine Granta faced sharp backlash this week after social media users questioned whether the winning entry and two of the finalists were generated by artificial intelligence. That kind of scandal — writing that is suspected to have been generated with AI — has become increasingly common in recent months. The New York Times ( twice ), Hachette , BenBella Books and Sports Illustrated have all suffered versions of it. But the Granta controversy is different, Atlantic contributor Vauhini Vara argues , because most of the accused writers have stayed silent. In the wake of their silence, Granta released a statement saying that it had asked Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude whether the winning entry had used AI, and Claude determined that it was “almost certainly not produced unaided by a human.” Given those inconclusive results, Granta has decided to keep the entries published on its website.…