Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using AI for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals
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“The provost of Dartmouth College has been accused of using artificial intelligence to draft his own academic and journalistic writing. Critics have described the discovery as an insulting breach of trust for the academic community.”
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