After promising to investigate, the Commonwealth releases a statement like this. Do they think we all go about using AI tools to detect AI writing, and that a writer would agree they used AI if contacted? Save what's left of your faces, People, but an ugly precedent has been set.
Four days ago, not long after the links to the winning stories were posted, I read "The Serpent in the Grove" and suspected subterfuge. I posted about it, then quietly emailed my observations in detail to The Commonwealth team. They just responded to me. Fingers crossed.