Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Al Drago / Getty Images Was AI used to produce a personal essay that wound up in the pages of the New York Times? The answer is complicated. The writer Kate Gilgan found herself at the center of a literary scandal last month when, on social media, another writer accused her of using AI to write an emotional first-person essay about the experience of losing custody of her young son at the height of her