{"id":75227,"date":"2025-11-18T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/18\/authors-dumped-from-new-zealands-top-book-prize-after-ai-used-in-cover-designs"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:55:29","slug":"authors-dumped-from-new-zealands-top-book-prize-after-ai-used-in-cover-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75227","title":{"rendered":"Authors dumped from New Zealand\u2019s top book prize after AI used in cover designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use<\/p>\n<p>The books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country\u2019s top literature prize because artificial intelligence was used in the creation of their cover designs.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Johnson\u2019s collection of short stories Obligate Carnivore and Elizabeth Smither\u2019s collection of novellas Angel Train were submitted to the 2026 Ockham book awards\u2019 NZ$65,000 fiction prize in October, but were ruled out of the competition the following month in light of new guidelines around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/18\/authors-dumped-from-new-zealands-top-book-prize-after-ai-used-in-cover-designs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence useThe books of two award-winning New Zealand authors have been disqualified from consideration for the country\u2019s top literature prize beca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[967,41,511,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75228,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75227\/revisions\/75228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}