NEW YORK – Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishers in the United States, pulled a forthcoming horror novel on March 19 in a decision that followed widespread allegations online that the author relied heavily on artificial intelligence to write the book.

On March 19, a day after The New York Times approached Hachette citing evidence that the novel appeared to be AI-generated, the company said it was pulling the book from publication. By that afternoon, the novel was removed from Amazon and Hachette’s website.