[neilv]

1. What happens when schools start hiring faculty with dissertations full of LLM output that's essentially the same thing as the plagiarism that this person is alleged to have done?

2. Well, at least it's an option in their back pocket, if they ever need to get out of a regretted contract or tenure commitment.

3. The article mentioned "weekly radio show". While presumably not the case here, the idea of academic as public public influencer suggests that rogue politicians could use allegations of academic plagiarism (due to LLM) to neutralize an academic who is saying something they don't like, when funding levers can't be used.

(Examples of topics for academic positions that some politicians might not like: climate change, race/ethic, sex/gender, geopolitic, safety scandal of campaign donor, planetary flatness.)

(I'm guessing this attack might work, since academics tend to profess more (dare I say it) conservative ideas about integrity than the overall population, and the universities value their own reputations highly. And academics have some rules and hierarchies, and they enforce rules when a transgression is called out in a way that can't be ignored. So, even if the general population goes full AI acceptance of people putting their name as author on things that aren't their own work, you'll have a lot of academics holding their own to a higher standard. And they already have a belief that plagiarism is bad. Fabrication is another bad. Popular LLMs are currently spewing both heavily.)