Incident #1512
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Removed an Opinion Article After Undisclosed Copilot Use
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.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- cath-ellis
- western-sydney-university
- educational-communities
Alleged Developers
- microsoft
- chatbot-developers
- large-language-model-developers
Harmed Parties
- the-sydney-morning-herald
- the-age
- epistemic-integrity
- educational-communities
- journalistic-integrity