[peterdsharpe]

Disagree. The kind of serious plagiarism that's alleged in cases like this, Claudine Gay, Marc Tessier-Lavigne doesn't happen by accident, it's deliberate. There are plenty of academics, both minorities and not, who are capable of original thought (and not resorting to plagiarism).

I can't wait for the day that AI is used to expose the fakers en-masse. Previously, they got away with plagiarism through obscurity - no longer. The sooner we can excise these freeloaders from our professional institutions, the better.

I did not go though the grueling process of writing an original PhD thesis, just to share a title with those who plagiarized their thesis.

[shermantanktop]

Well, there’s a before-and-after cutoff here. The previous generation will be pilloried for their copying, but the next on is now armed with the tools to copy without detection.

“Chatbot, please rephrase this entire passage so that plagiarism detectors will consider it clean.”

It’s been happening from the moment ChatGPT was released, and after 15 years or so, all the leading young academic stars will have grown up with it.

[llamaimperative]

The Claudine Gay example was way, way different than this. She actually DID refer specifically to the authors she was pulling from, she just didn’t paraphrase significantly enough to avoid using quotation marks in doing so.

At least for every example I saw, there was no way a reader would think she was passing the ideas off as her own.

[idle_zealot]

AI will reveal all past plagiarism, while at the same time allowing anyone to fake it; get the LLM to write their papers or thesis, fabricate research with plausible methods and results, etc, undetectably.

[therealcamino]

"I did not go though the grueling process of writing an original PhD thesis, just to share a title with those who plagiarized their thesis."

Amen. No to excusing plagiarism of folks that have used it as a tool to climb the ranks of academia.