This is Bill Ackman's wife. Bill forgot to dig a second grave when he was digging Claudine Gay's.
Bill is bigly mad. He's gonna get everyone in education back.
https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1
See, they are using AI to do this.
The same AI that lies and looks for common patterns of words. The same AI that steals original works and says it's for the good of mankind and the wallet of Bill Ackman.
Here's the direct mention of Kornbluth.
Ackman has manage to Streisand Effect the Epstein gift to his wife's lab and her relationship with him as well.
Sadly, the only losers here are going to be a lot of brilliant women (including Neri).
Ackman is learning all about change logs, versioning, citation and copyright. He's discovering people research, curate, cite and update and it's all tracked to the comma.
He's learning by having folks point out how it works.
See, this is the same issue Elon has. Having money doesn't make you an expert on other people's fields or even smart. It just means you have money.
Ackman, appropos of everything, wrote this back in 1988. He's angry that his Goldfinger plan got exposed before he could execute the final blow. Because, like all Bond villains, he had to do a monolog and victory dance so the world would know it was him.
Bill Ackman has it all - he was born with a ton of it and has leveraged it into even more. And he's horribly tainted by a vicious revenge streak and some weird sense of needing to prove his superiority - like he's not just a nepo legacy guy. Chip the size of Harvard Square on his shoulder.
And he just couldn't keep his mouth shut and go live his really fabulous and enviable life.
@Cosmichomicide I read that as well and it is as if "My wife got caught but it's all the president of MIT's fault!"
He also said his wife's was fine because she apologized and was gonna fix it. Which is exactly what Gay did.
Wonder what the difference could be?
@Cosmichomicide Agreed and we all know what that is!
This is coming as well. A lot of this dropped when the Epstein Files did. MIT was in the dead center of that mess.
Kornbluth wasn't there. Oxman was.
@Cosmichomicide It's a distraction tactic that may not work in their favor as most distraction tactics backfire and I really hope it does so spectacularly!
Ackman is actually getting it right in one sense. When you pull a paragraph out of a 300 page book that someone spent years taking notes about, it's probably a mistake. People make them. There are procedures in academia for curing them for a reason.
We are now seeing people who haven't written since their book report on Moby Dick discussing proper citation and use of quotation marks.
That's why this is an assault on higher education and a much bigger deal than a few citations.
@Cosmichomicide Plus many of these dissertations were done before the use of a program to catch plagraism. When I did mine in 2020 had my professor run it through the program to catch any mistakes so that I could correct it before submitting it. So yes, it is very much an assault on higher education.
Citation standards change, tools change, methods change.
Yep.
And the tool they are using (AI LLM) is, by definition, a plagiarist. Being driven by folks who can't contextualize the output. The irony is insane.
@Cosmichomicide do not think what they used for mine involved AI but then again it could have, all I know it was a special program they used to scan the document looking for improper parts and it would highlight the section. It flagged mine, but it was because I forgot to add the other part of the " at the end of a sentence 😂
Honestly, I'd like to give modern day PhDs the "tools" that were available in the late 90s - early naughts and just watch the horror.
Here's the Boston Globe article (paywalled, sadly - I'll check for links). I added a screenshot, tho. Oxman was directly involved with the Epstein grants.
Poor Brad Pitt. He really should have stayed with Jennifer, LOL! (He was rumored to be dating Neri when this story broke - she married Ackman in 2019)
@Cosmichomicide well he did dodge a bullet there 😂
What's a real shame is her work is brilliant.
Here's me defending Ackman's wife:
Her using a definition of weft does not materially impact anything. Weft is weft. Her subsequent observations are the original work. Any missed mechanics can be corrected if noticed.
Academics spend a lot of time chasing grants. Sometimes taking the money and distancing from the source is a choice between shutting down a project or getting it over the line. Not right, but reality.
Here's me not defending her - it may be legal, it may be commonly done, but a year after you take money from a convicted pedophile maybe don't do art shots of kids with death masks?
Don't get me wrong, these are beautiful and I love the concept, but um... wow, that's some poor judgement there.
Psst. Bill is gonna go after MIT's leadership (Kornbluth).
"But after BI had emailed its findings to Oxman, Ackman posted a response on X in which he promised to conduct plagiarism reviews of MIT's leadership"
He pledged to conduct a thorough review of MIT president Sally Kornbluth, all MIT faculty, and board members and other officers of the MIT Corporation for evidence of plagiarism, using MIT's plagiarism standards