A University of Sydney audit has found that Microsoft’s Copilot routinely sidelines Australian journalism in its AI‑generated news summaries, favouring US and European outlets, erasing bylines and flattening local context — a pattern that threatens referral traffic, newsroom revenue, and...
A new University of Sydney study warns that AI-driven news summaries are quietly reshaping how Australians encounter current affairs — and not in ways that favour local journalism. The paper, led by Dr Timothy Koskie of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, finds that Microsoft’s Copilot...
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A sharply worded satirical post on RoyalDutchShellPlc.com — written with generative tools, analyzed by another AI, and published by a human editor — has quietly become a live case study in how satire, defamation law, and AI-driven journalism now intersect, with practical lessons for reporters...