Wow, what a neat PR-friendly term that was never used before today to mean… plagiarism.
But seriously, who would be stupid enough to pay over $30K per year, to know that one, unintentional, incident, according to Harvard’s own handbook can cause suspension - but their president gets away with murder?
One more fun fact: Harvard has an endowment of $50.9 billion. They’re basically a corporation and should be treated as such, especially when they could offer free tuition for over a century with that cash.
What is the prevalence of such incidents in the overall corpus of academic literature? I suspect it’s pretty high. For all we know, Gay’s work is below what is standardly accepted.
LLMs will be a big change here for the past and future. They make past plagiarism cheap to discover. They make future plagiarism cheap to hide, simply by re-generating the same thought after embedding.
So more accountability going backwards, and less going forward.
It’s a shame that the “antisemitism” claims seem to be so embedded in the narrative that they go unchallenged. As for the plagiarism claims… eh. It was 1997 and I seriously doubt it was intentional. Plus, the people who seem to care are also the people who abhor any higher education that isn’t Liberty or Praeger.
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[ 882 ms ] story [ 544 ms ] threadBut seriously, who would be stupid enough to pay over $30K per year, to know that one, unintentional, incident, according to Harvard’s own handbook can cause suspension - but their president gets away with murder?
One more fun fact: Harvard has an endowment of $50.9 billion. They’re basically a corporation and should be treated as such, especially when they could offer free tuition for over a century with that cash.
So more accountability going backwards, and less going forward.