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
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
@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.