Told ya. They are running text through a large language model. No context, no checking standards of the time.
This isn't about plagiarism. And the idea of an AI startup to continually grind up academic papers.
Well, there had to be a money angle.
"I have an idea! My tech bros will create a drain on education dollars that will make us money and shut down most higher ed that doesn't bend to our will."
And we'll use it to track quotation marks and eliminate the nasty woke bitches who won't grovel for my money."
Look up Ackman and Herbalife. Don't get me wrong, Herbalife is sketchy on a good day, but they made the mistake of not letting Ackman short the stock after badmouthing them.
It was bloody, expensive, and vicious.
I have no doubt at all he already has the first finding round planned and his partners on board.
Icahn vs. Ackman. 5 years. A billion dollars.
Neri must be thrilled her husband is going after her university and her colleagues. I guess she'll get used to being Bill's eye candy and everyone will wonder who he paid off to exhibit her work.
And he still won't care.
BTW, this goes on for pages and pages. Ranting about how higher education (which he calls HED) is negatively impacting THE CHILDREN and must be purged by technology.
He make Goldfinger look sane.
Lolz, Acky lost his shit in the NYT article about the missus. Very obvs what's happening here, what it is is pretty clear.
Here's Biz Insider cuz my NYT freebies are running low...
https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1
Ah, but my month is pretty good on #GiftArticle
Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Is Accused of Plagiarism https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/us/plagiarism-bill-ackman-neri-oxman-claudine-gay-harvard.html
This article makes me laugh.
I forgot that they quoted Dersh about "everything is weaponized."
And Acky sounds like a moron. With a bunch of money. 😆
He's a NY real estate nepo baby that resents people thinking his money, connections, and education got him where he is.
I half wonder if he's kneecapping Neri to bring her in line. I mean, she survived Epstein and she has tenure, but after this she'll be eating alone in a cold basement lab while journals decline her papers. At best.
Ooof. And oof.
And what is this "survived Epstein" bidnis of which you speak?
Related --
Have you read Naomi K's "Doppelganger" yet?
She was directly a part of the MIT Epstein scandal, wined and dined him, used his money for her lab, sent gifts.
Whaaaat
And now Acky Acky 1, 2, 3 is trying to pull a Petey Thiel on Biz Insider.
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/07/2024/business-insiders-owners-clash-over-plagiarism-story
And he's taking names and numbers for the folks who are going to help him build an academic purity AI that he controls, sells, and weaponizes.
He probably already has deals with Florida as a way to purge the remaining academics who don't join the movement.
I guess — once again — I’m glad I left the home state? 🤷🏻♂️🤔🤷🏻♂️ Wonder how a couple of now-tenured college pals there feel…
So the positive here is that Ackman is a baby billionaire - only about $4B. Which is still a lot of money, but totally able to be lost and lost quickly.
My guess is he had planned (and is probably already working with one of the techbros) to announce his Academic Purity AI startup over the summer but his hand got forced when the fan blew back on him.
‘Nother whaaaaat
(Coinkydink that Acky Acky 1, 2, 3 is also going after MIT now cuz “antisemitism”?)
https://www.axios.com/2019/09/14/joi-jeffrey-epstein-ties-mit-media-lab-professor
Yup. And John Cook (Gawker) is the BI editor.
Color me so shocked I momentarily just drifted off to sleep at the sheer predictability of it all.
Unfuckingbelievable.
Ackman is the same guy that has donated money & time to far right efforts.
he only hates racism only against his ppl. got it.
@Cosmichomicide i certainly trust higher education policing itself FAR more than i trust an AI startup specifically aimed at trashing academia.
@Cosmichomicide If he was actually a legitimate threat to the higher ed ecosystem, I suspect he probably wouldn't be around for long.
Any time you've got billions of dollars flowing, it can motivate people to do some extremely shady shit.
I'd say if the PSE system as a whole felt threatened, someone with connections very well might take it on themselves to arrange for him to have an "accident" & wind up in the morgue.
Fuck around with an entrenched power structure, & you tend to find out.
We can only hope. But he and Rufo have already caused damage through their witch burnings and they work fast.
I predicted Kornbluth was next. When (intentional word choice) she resigns, it will be Columbia's turn. Minouche Shafik may be the last stop for them though - she's played ball on the big court at the IMF, LSE, and World Bank. She's handled her share of Ackmans and she was the only one to avoid the hearing trap (she's Muslim). I have some hope.
@Cosmichomicide Fingers crossed.
Even if that's not the case, there are serious connections between higher education (and research universities in particular) and the military-industrial complex.
If Ackman and his "tech bro" toadies start causing too much disruption in that space, they may well end up treading on some toes you *really* don't want to tread on.
Hard to say what exactly would happen after that, but I suspect he'd wind up "independently deciding" to do something else instead.
Read the pure hatred in this screed.
Stop getting rid of the Al Frankens and the Claudine Gays with right wing purity tests. Please stop falling for it. Please?