Dartmouth provost caught AI-ghostwriting; 'RA slop' predates AI slop
birchlse · x · 2026-09-24
Dartmouth's provost has reportedly been submitting 70-100% AI-written work in journals, newspapers and even emails — including an op-ed about how universities handle AI cheating. Commenter Andrew Gerard reframes this: elites have always offloaded writing to research assistants and junior staff ('before AI slop there was RA slop'). For bandwidth-constrained thought leaders, working with AI may actually get their own thoughts out more directly — they just tell a machine what they think instead of vetting an assistant's draft.
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