Academia Is a Content Farm Ill-Positioned to Police Outsiders on AI Use
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-23
Rex Douglass argues academia is in an especially bad position to force norms on outsiders with completely different incentives: it operates like a content farm producing strategically vague artifacts, hasn't put its own house in order, and much of the policing it attempts amounts to flag planting.
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