Lawyers for Harvard and its president Claudine Gay are trying to deny claims she is a plagiarist created by “ChatGPT.”
They sent The Post a 15-page legal tirade that floated a bizarre conspiracy theory that 27 instances where his work closely resembled that of other academics might have been discovered using Microsoft’s artificial intelligence chatbot.
The letter, sent in October to The Post’s lawyers, threatened a lawsuit if the paper published the alleged plagiarism against Gay.
The letter was sent before the Harvard Corporation, the board that runs the Ivy League school launched its own secret investigation into multiple allegations of plagiarism against the embattled president – which actually cleared him before the investigation.
“Indeed, there are strong indications that the excerpt cited by The Post was not actually the ‘complaint’ of a human complainant — but rather was generated by artificial intelligence or some other technological or automated means,” wrote Thomas Clare and David Sillers in their Oct. 27 letter to The Post.
Lawyers for embattled Harvard president Claudine Gay are trying to link alleged plagiarism to Chat GPT. Boston Globe via Getty Images Here’s how Harvard lawyer Clare Locke floated a weird conspiracy theory that ChatGPT had filed plagiarism allegations against her. Clare Locke LLP/Harvard
It was sent three days after The Post asked Harvard’s communications department for comment on the alleged plagiarism.
“If this indication is correct, and the ultimate source of this example is an algorithm-generated list created by asking ChatGPT to (for example) ‘show me the 10 most similar passages in Claudine Gay’s work to other scholarly works’, that is not the same ‘complaint’ once,” continued the letter.
“On the contrary, it is fabricated news. Rest assured that, in any legal proceedings required by the publication of the alleged defamatory plagiarism, we will explore in discovery the source and provenance of this alleged ‘complaint’.”
Gay’s lawyer claims the revelation that he was accused of plagiarism may have come from ChatGPT. NurPhoto via Getty Images
In fact, Gay’s peer-reviewed journal corrected two instances of alleged plagiarism that The Post asked him to comment on — even though his attorney falsely told us that all of his work was “properly cited and credited.”
Harvard declined to comment on whether it still stands by the allegations about ChatGPT.
The university and Gay are facing a congressional investigation into the alleged plagiarism and their handling of it.
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