No AI rules? Plagiarism analogy shows why it's still a scandal
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-29
Responding to "there are no rules about AI use here," the author argues universities also have no explicit plagiarism rules — yet a single plagiarized paragraph in an administrator's commencement speech would be a major scandal, because it undermines the university's mission to teach students to think for themselves. The same logic, he says, applies to unregulated AI use.
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