In the end, even Jason Arday’s resignation statement should have carried a health warning.
The cliché-filled 600-word note announcing ‘with profound sadness’ that he’d decided to fall on his sword amid an ‘unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack’ was, within minutes of publication, run through AI detection software by online critics.
It found that the professor’s remarks were between 90 and 100 per cent likely to have been written with the help of a computer bot.
The ensuing social media kerfuffle on Wednesday night marked a fitting end to an utterly surreal scandal in which almost nothing proved to be quite
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