{"id":23337,"date":"2026-06-03T03:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/sydney-academic-used-ai-to-write-smh-opinion-piece-urging-students-to-avoid-using-tech-to-cut-corners\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:37:39","slug":"sydney-academic-used-ai-to-write-smh-opinion-piece-urging-students-to-avoid-using-tech-to-cut-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/sydney-academic-used-ai-to-write-smh-opinion-piece-urging-students-to-avoid-using-tech-to-cut-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to \u2018cut corners\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was \u2018appropriate\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/03\/politics-live-australia-aukus-submarines-pauline-hanson-anthony-albanese-angus-taylor-question-time-senate-estimates-labor-one-nation-coaliton-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A top Sydney academic used AI to write an opinion piece that urged students to \u201cdo the work\u201d and not cut corners by using such technology, with the Sydney Morning Herald removing the \u201cunacceptable\u201d piece from its website.<\/p>\n<p>Western Sydney University\u2019s pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity, Prof Cath Ellis, had an opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald last month, in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/i-m-an-academic-but-i-ve-told-my-stepdaughter-to-think-twice-about-going-to-university-20260525-p600ix.html\">an article from the academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jun\/03\/sydney-academic-used-ai-opinion-piece-urging-students-to-avoid-using-it-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4a6e567063ed76897094c356959f115332f7fce8\/333_0_6827_5464\/master\/6827.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9ea5c6c5fa81ccc68a82904aa5fff16a\" title=\"Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to \u2018cut corners\u2019\" \/>Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was \u2018appropriate\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>A top Sydney academic used AI to write an opinion piece that urged students to \u201cdo the work\u201d and not cut corners by using such technology, with the Sydney Morning Herald removing the \u201cunacceptable\u201d piece from its website.<br \/>\nWestern Sydney University\u2019s pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity, Prof Cath Ellis, had an opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald last month, in response to an article from the academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was \u2018appropriate\u2019 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A top Sydney academic used AI to write an opinion piece that urged students to \u201cdo &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/sydney-academic-used-ai-to-write-smh-opinion-piece-urging-students-to-avoid-using-tech-to-cut-corners\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to \u2018cut corners\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}