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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Mary-Ann Russon

How a student tricked the Irish Times into running a fake AI-written opinion piece

Ireland’s national newspaper, the Irish Times, was on Sunday forced to apologise after mistakenly publishing a contentious opinion piece that was found to be written by artificial intelligence (AI).

The article, entitled “Irish women’s obsession with fake tan is problematic”, was published on Thursday, May 11.

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