Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b... 501612331 1.6K
Niel Loeb @nielloeb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The Times also surely has a policy to first spell out a name such as Artificial Intelligence before subsequently using its acronym. Stop depending on the Times for accuracy. 010 1
Nonya Bidniss @nonyabidniss.bsky.social · 30/03/2026LLMs are a plague and people using them to create products without full disclosure should be punished by society 020 2
nigeloverstreet.bsky.social @nigeloverstreet.bsky.social · 31/03/2026"used an AI tool" is code for "literally every word of this was written by AI". 030 3
Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 31/03/2026It’s kind of nuts that this is what it takes for the Times to credit another outlet for a story that ran before theirs. 080 8
john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 30/03/2026My guess is that he simply plagiarised from the Guardian piece, and thought the AI thing sounded less bad as an explanation. 020 2
Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 30/03/2026How did someone who pulls this crap even get into the position where they were writing book reviews for a major publication? Like if you have so little interest in literature and writing that you'd get a chatbot to do your work for you, why is this your career? 2350 35
Craig @thelordgod.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Yeah they'll have AI review itself from here on out. That should fix it. 000 0
aran 🏳️⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 30/03/2026This would be career-ending if it happened to a reputable newspaper, but fortunately it's only the New York Times. 020 2
Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026And the NYT now knows not to publish anything by this reviewer again, right? ...Right? I review graphic novels for Publishers Weekly and I put so much effort into my little capsule reviews. This is spitting on the work the writers put into their books, and it's spitting on the readers' trust. 2521 52
DK Latta @dklatta.bsky.social · 30/03/2026So so so soooo many struggling, desperate, enthusiastic writers out there eager for even a crumb of work, a sliver of opportunity...and publications use "writers" who can't even be arsed to write their own book reviews (the dream: to be paid to read/watch stuff and opine on them!) 0120 12
Along for the ride 🌮🐷 @ridder.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I'm pretty doubtful the AI accidentally "incorporated" content from his other article. Maybe he could convince it to do that with the right prompt engineering, but it seems unlikely the AI would do that on its own. 000 0
DavidNelsonNM @davidnelsonnm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I think the standards at the Times are used to it. 050 5
John Ryan @heyjohnryan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Wait, NYT didn’t retract (delete) the review?? 2201 20
Vanessa Reese: not a mom, hot to frot @frotting.mom · 30/03/2026It's the NY Times, they lost their credibility way before this 1370 37
Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · 30/03/2026cute they link to @theguardian.com review, and makes it even more humiliating for the AI-prompt-guy 0100 10
idoru66.bsky.social @idoru66.bsky.social · 30/03/2026To have that privilege, and then both disgrace yourself and poison the well when it comes to the perceived credibility of other reviewers... Such dismal times. 11901 190
cory hughart @cr0ybot.com · 31/03/2026I sincerely hope so, but I have a bad feeling... bsky.app/profile/cr0y...cory hughart@cr0ybot.comI'm at a conference for journalists. I just had to leave a talk to find a quiet place to sit after the presenter demonstrated, to an audience of writers, how to use a prompt generator to write a prompt to generate writing. Felt physically unsettled. 030 3
Schiffskatze (die sympathische Sommerbotin) @katzenschiff.bsky.social · 30/03/2026How do these people still get paid 🤷♀️ stealing stuff and selling it on 000 0
RJC @voguingtodanzig.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Fucking bullshit. Just write the review. Do it yourself. You made it to the New York Times, a detestable newspaper but still kind of a pinnacle of journalism — you should be able to knock that shit out with no problem 010 1
Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Fun fact for other Brits - the journalist in question is Preston from the Ordinary Boys brother 040 4
nolageurl.bsky.social @nolageurl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026@propublica.org @zeteo.com @karaswisher.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @thebulwark.com @lincolnproject.us @lincolnsquare.media @wired.com @theguardian.com @thetnholler.bsky.social 000 0
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 30/03/2026there's this too www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comHow AI Is Creeping Into The New York TimesArtificial intelligence seems to be turning up, undisclosed, in the opinion pages of major news publications. 14014 40
SeekHigherGround @seekhigherground.bsky.social · 30/03/2026why the eff would a writer auto-generate his assignment rather than, you know, write it? what a lazy POS 000 0
Mateo Cronkite @mateo226.bsky.social · 30/03/2026If you’re a writer and you need AI to write, guess what? You’re NOT a writer. Time to change professions. 030 3
TGoods @tomgoodchild.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Where's the part when they refuse to publish anything else by this "writer"? 120 2
LG @mostlyapples.bsky.social · 30/03/2026USING AI FOR A REVIEW is unforgivable. The whole point of a review is for the OPINION of someone who is deemed an expert in that field; someone who is also for better or worse deemed to have a certain level of taste. @nytimes.com I don't subscribe but I still hope this journalist is fired. 010 1
Keith Donovan @keithdonovan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026the WSJ apparently has higher tolerance for plagiarism than the Angry Video Game Nerd 030 3
Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026@marisakabas.bsky.social hey so this is what it takes for them to cite other journalists when they aren't directing traffic to white nationalists explicitly. 0532 53
[REDACTED] Bitch 🏳️⚧️ @msandropy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026It's the times, I'm not sure how much better they are going to get this decade. 0120 12
Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Even the people who say they understand that AI needs human editing/supervision... Don't edit or supervise it. Why not? Because it takes work and anyone using AI is fundamentally trying to avoid doing work. This will keep happening. 212214 122
Steve O'Donnell @steveodonnell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026A million years ago, I needed to write a proper on a Blake poem. I read every interpretation I could find, and I eventually wrote a fine paper navigating through them to arrive at my own interpretation. But I quoted the sources—like, with QUOTATION MARKS. Having AI write something for you is bogus. 010 1
VileEvilLevi @vileevillevi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Maybe they should try writing with their brain? 000 0
Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social · 30/03/2026So did they edit the NYT review or what? It’s still there? 170 7
Margaret Segall @greenheron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The @nytimes.com would be improved by more plagiarism from @theguardian.com 060 6
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