It takes a while for Colin Carlson to get to the 'only reason' but it's this: "Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism." It's worth noting that Carlson views the accusation as career-ending, "especially if those accusations become public, where they can be debated ad infinitum. And anything you've written, at any point, can be relitigated a half-century later." Perhaps. Or perhaps the rise of AI will push back against the imagined purity that is academic writing. After all, nothing - nothing - is completely original. Take the current post - the one that states "here's the basic point I haven't seen anyone make." Now ask yourself why it isn't a copy of the idea expressed in Plagiarism of ideas in the age of generative artificial intelligence, by David Resnik & Mohammad Hosseini, published back in May. Or Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI, written by
Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette back in 2025. Let's stop pretending we're more original than we actually are.
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