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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Amanda Meade

ACM will take no action against lawyer who hosted websites that used AI to alter legitimate news stories

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Australian Community Media has said it ‘does not agree with using AI to take content from news websites’. Photograph: borabajk/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Australian Community Media will take no action against its in-house lawyer who has been implicated in the creation of websites that later published thousands of articles using copy taken from legitimate news outlets.

The four websites – League Initiative, F1 Initiative, Surf Initiative and AliaVera – posted poor-quality articles apparently using generative AI to disguise them from the original copy.

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