Western Sydney University professor admits using AI to write opinion piece defending AI

To write her opinion article, Professor Ellis uploaded 40,000 words of her own original materials into a Copilot Large Language Model (LLM)

The model summarised her extensive base of knowledge, providing prompts. This was the basis of the early drafts, reflecting Professor Ellis's own thinking, ideas and opinions built up over more than a decade of dedicated work as a global leader in this field.

She shared her piece with the WSU media team, which also used AI tools to suggest improvements, and the piece went through several revisions before it was su