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I can’t speak to what LLMs and AI in general might be capable of now or in the future. What…
I think that Kaufman is probably wrong about AI’s capacity for original research but concern about universities survives and even…
“said explicitly that AI will simply accelerate something that is already happening.” – The metaphor people use is “force multiplier”…
(Sorry, I feel I’m becoming the gadfly in this conversation!) Regarding 1: I learned to take the ‘demographics is destiny’…
Yeah, I clocked this one right away as almost surely AI. Given the username, I should allow that it *might*…
Apologies if I’m reading you uncharitably, but it sounds like you are advocating for course failure and later expulsion on…
What do you think? I'm sure everyone would have their preferred wording, but I assume everyone can locate their own view in one of the three options below, so don't get hung up on the precise wording–choose the option closest to your view of the case and its legacy. (The second and third options got chopped: the second should say "by requiring the plaintiff too prove too much" and the third should conclude "into public figures who can be defamed with impunity".)
“Though not outright proof on its face” is where the heuristics from the conversation would inform next steps. Plagiarism of…