Die New York Times schließt freiberuflichen Journalisten aus, der KI zum Verfassen von Buchrezensionen eingesetzt hat
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/31/the-new-york-times-drops-freelance-journalist-who-used-ai-to-write-book-review
Die New York Times schließt freiberuflichen Journalisten aus, der KI zum Verfassen von Buchrezensionen eingesetzt hat
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/31/the-new-york-times-drops-freelance-journalist-who-used-ai-to-write-book-review
12 Kommentare
AI isn’t going to kill us. It will make humans kill each other faster, like we have done since the dawn of time.
the easiest job in the world is just to tell people what you think of a thing. Outsourcing that to AI means you are no longer doing the core responsibility of that job.
The caliber of the NYT has dropped so far I hardly think this matters.
If I find out any news source I’m reading is using AI I will cancel my subscription. I’m paying for humans, not for AI shit.
Edit: oh great, he writes for the FT and Economist. Two of my subscriptions. I’m going to reassess if I want to pay for them.
Only the AI masters get to use it, to put people out of work
Creatives using it for themselves must be shunned
How are there comments about anything other than his hairline???????
I am going to play devil’s advocate on this one. What if he wrote the article himself, but used Grammerly to fix his grammar? How about if he used a spell checker? 50 years ago neither was available, and if you are being super strict, it would not be his own work.
Separately, what if he used AI primarily for the structure and organization of his thoughts, while the actual wording was his own?
My point is AI is now part of our lives, and it’s not going away. Maybe we should allow for a gray area.
NYT shit cans journalist that used AI to write a review.
NYT starts using AI to write reviews on everything because “ This guy is doing it, why payroll?“
PROFIT
He claimed that he used it to assist him, but it copied parts of someone else’s review nearly verbatim.
The detail that gets lost here is that the freelancer did not disclose. If they had said I used AI as a drafting tool, here is what I verified and changed, the conversation would be very different. The NYT fired them for the deception, not the tool — which is the correct instinct. Undisclosed AI in journalism is not an AI problem, it is a transparency problem.
Egg head errr cone head
Plagiarism has long been an unforgivable crime in journalism – and now using AI (ie: plaigarising from the Giant Theft Machine) needs to be similarly taboo.