Two of New Zealand’s best-known writers have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s premier literary prize after organisers discovered their book jackets used images generated with artificial intelligence.
Stephanie Johnson’s short story collection Obligate Carnivore and Elizabeth Smither’s novella Angel Train were entered for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, the top fiction award run by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust as part of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
