The NYT Book Review has cut ties with novelist and freelance journalist Alex Preston, after discovering that Preston used AI in creating a recent review. The Wrap reports that a reader flagged Preston’s January 6 review of Watching Over Her by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, which bore similarities to a Guardian review of the same book. The newspaper launched an investigation of the situation and Preston admitted that he’d used AI and failed to catch the pieces that were pulled from the Guardian. Preston has written six other pieces for the paper since 2021 and he denied used AI on any of […]
