Posted on 01/08/2024 4:29:23 PM PST by chickenlips
Last night, no one at @MIT had a good night’s sleep.
Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp could be heard around the campus.
Why? Well, every faculty member knows that once their work is targeted by AI, they will be outed. No body of written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks, failures to paraphrase appropriately, and/or the failure to properly credit the work of others.
But it wasn’t just the MIT faculty that did not sleep last night. The @Harvard faculty, its governing board members, and its administrative leadership did not sleep either. Because why would we stop at MIT?
Don’t we have to do a deep dive into academic integrity at Harvard as well?
What about Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth? You get the point.
While we are going to do a detailed review of plagiarism at MIT, we are not going to be the only ones who do so.
Every college and university in the world is going to have to do the same for themselves. They will do so because they will need to validate all plagiarism accusations, or someone else will do it for them.
The best approach, however, is probably to launch an AI startup to do this job (I would be interested in investing in one) as there is plenty of work to do, and many institutions won’t have the resources to do it on their own. Perhaps more importantly, the donors are going to demand that the review is done by an independent third party.
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Creating new universities and having some of the old corrupt ones shrink into irrelevancy.
If you consider using wikipedia materials for definitions of words to be plagiarism.
LOL....AI wankers.
Good story.
“Strictly speaking, MIT is an academics only school, and not an Ivy. (no legacies, no athletic scholarships)”
Not the point of your post but thought I’d clarify. Ivy League also does not do athletic scholarships.
My mistake.
But my main point is MIT doesn’t have legacies - you have to get in on your academic merit.
I guess the Ivy league “considers” athletics as part of the application, as well as for “financial aid”. But officially, no athletic scholarships.
His wife’s “plagiarism” seems to be mostly failure to site dictionaries and thesauri for definitions and word choice.
From his X piece:
“Business Insider’s “thorough review of her published work” were definitions of words or terms that Neri may have used from Wikipedia including the definition of: “weaving,” “computer graphics,” “computer-aided design,” “pain,” “manifold,” “heat flux,” “optimization,” and “sustainable design,” to name more than half of the examples BI calls plagiarism.”
It would be interesting to see if Plagiarism standards were selectively enforced. I suspect this may be the case, and Ackmans AI model may prove so.
The lying people who are our enemies has made this accusation because they claimed they found something in her PHD dissertation where she left off a couple of quote marks.
My immediate reaction is to believe these *LYING* people found a mistake, and characterized it as plagiarism to cover up for their stupid hood ornament president at Harvard, who has repeated and clear examples of plagiarism.
I think his wife may have left of the quotes, but it was likely an accident or an oversight.
Never believe what our lying enemies claim.
Was AI even a thing back then?
This does NOT excuse Harvard and their choices...
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