Description: The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age removed an opinion article by Western Sydney University academic Cath Ellis after reporting found it had been prepared with Microsoft Copilot without the masthead being informed. Ellis said she used Copilot to structure her own notes, while the masthead said the article did not meet its editorial standards on AI use.
Editor Notes: The retracted article is available as an image at the following URL: https://static.ffx.io/images/03b75739c0920e15555afad91761bf49e6e89dd84df25347c8db5777f038f2de.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Microsoft , Chatbot developers and Large language model developers developed an AI system deployed by Cath Ellis , Western Sydney University and Educational communities, which harmed Educational communities , The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , Journalism and Epistemic integrity.
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Incident ID
1512
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-05-31
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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AIID editor's note: The original source embeds the the retracted article in question. It is also located here.
When a professor specialising in academic integrity wrote an opinion piece that defended universities against claims that artific…
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