New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use | Exclusive

The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer after the paper discovered he used AI to help write a book review that inadvertently incorporated elements of a Guardian review on the same title. A reader informed the paper late this month that its Jan. 6 review of "Watching Over Her" by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, written by author and journalist Alex Preston, bore similarities to an August review of the book published in the Guardian. The Times then launched a review and spoke to Preston, who admitted he used an AI tool to help draft the piece and that he failed to catch the Guardian . . .