Two books by distinguished authors have been ruled out of New Zealand's premier literary prize because their covers were generated with artificial intelligence.

Elizabeth Smither's Angel Train and Stephanie Johnson's Obligate Carnivore, bot…

The New Zealand Book Awards Trust introduced a new rule this year stating that any book submitted for the Ockham awards must not contain AI material of any kind.

"Don't judge a book by its cover" goes the famous idiom, one which may be toug…

The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs.

Stephanie Johnson’s collect…

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'…

One book cover shows a cat with green eyes baring humanlike teeth. Another has an angel soaring above a yellow freight train.

The authors of the books, which were submitted to one of New Zealand's largest literary competitions, didn't know …

Elizabeth Smither and Stephanie Johnson's latest books, both published by Quentin Wilson Publishing, have been yeeted from the Ockhams.

Author Stephanie Johnson had no idea that the image of a cat with human teeth on the cover of her book o…