Professor's jab: is outsourcing a paper to AI or a PhD student more 'artisanal'?
prof_kamilov · x · 2026-09-21
A professor poses a pointed joke: which is more 'artisanal' — outsourcing an entire paper to AI, or to a PhD student? The quip satirizes academia's habit of delegating paper writing, treating both AI and students as cheap labor.
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