New York Times Book Review Cuts Ties With Freelancer Who Used AI
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 […]
Dashverse to Create Short Videos of Harlequin Romances
Harlequin and AI entertainment company Dashverse have partnered to offer short-form drama videos inspired by Harlequin Romance books. The “microdramas” will be “developed by a team of illustrators assisted by Dashverse’s proprietary production system, Frameo,” an “AI-powered creation platform,” a release states. The videos will be available in English and distributed through Dashverse’s DashReels and other platforms. The first of 40 planned adaptations is Catherine Mann’s A Fairy-Tail Ending, available in April. In May, the companies will release JC Harroway’s Forbidden Fiji Nights with Her Rival and Mistletoe Baby Mix-Up, Jackie Ashenden’s Newlywed Enemies, and La Quette’s The King’s Pregnancy Proposition. […]