September 14, 2026 — 3:30pm

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When university lecturer Luke Rowe decided to replace his recorded online lecture with an AI-generated avatar of himself, he expected his students would notice immediately that something amiss.

Instead, most were unable to initially differentiate between the real recording and the avatar. And once they could, students said they preferred the AI version of Rowe to the real thing.

“I was eating humble pie, and I was sitting there going, ‘Why is that?’” the senior education researcher at Australian Catholic…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU