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Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…
Announcement here. Will this change the APA? If so, how? I've no idea! Thoughts from readers welcome, especially those more engaged with the APA.
Given that wokeness seems to correlate positively with youth, this could bode very ill for the organization, which already has a serious identity-politics problem. I very much hope I'm wrong about that.
One possibility–remote, I think/hope–is that graduate students may feel compelled to vote in a certain way to impress people who have power over their career prospects. But, then again, that same possibility probably applies to tenured and tenure-track professors too!
Since graduate students have an important stake in philosophy as a profession, they should have a say in the direction of the APA.
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