This actually looks like good old fashioned artisanal plagiarism, not least because the August 2025 Guardian review wouldn't have been in LLM training corpuses in time for the Jan 2026 NYT review. It's interesting that the NYT writer thinks he can partially deflect blame by implicating AI, though!
Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...