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Emma Loffhagen

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review

Alex Preston
Alex Preston in Oxford, 2018. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images

The New York Times has cut ties with a freelance journalist after discovering he used artificial intelligence to help write a book review that echoed elements of a review of the same book in the Guardian.

It came after a New York Times reader flagged similarities between the paper’s January review of Watching Over Her by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, written by author and journalist Alex Preston, and an August review of the same book written by Christobel Kent in the Guardian.

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