Harvard professor slammed for using AI to write to write anti-Trump op-ed: ‘Worst slop I’ve seen’
A Harvard professor is in hot water over claims that an anti-President Trump opinion article he wrote for the Financial Times was almost entirely AI-generated, with some branding it “slop.” The article, by former Venezuelan government minister Ricardo Hausmann, now includes a disclaimer from the FT following its publication on Thursday, “It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,” reads the editorial note at the top of the piece. “The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” the statement continues.
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A Harvard professor is in hot water over claims that an anti-President Trump opinion article he wrote for the Financial Times was almost entirely AI-generated, with some branding it “slop.” The article, by former Venezuelan government minister Ricardo Hausmann, now includes a disclaimer from the FT following its publication on Thursday, “It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,” reads the editorial note at the top of the piece. “The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” the statement continues. It came after the op-ed, which criticized President Trump’s tariffs, was called out on social media over its stilted prose. “Gotta be the worst AI slop I’ve seen in a major publication,” one X user wrote.
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- A Harvard professor is in hot water over claims that an anti-President Trump opinion article he wrote for the Financial Times was almost entirely AI-generated, with some branding it “slop.” The article, by former Venezuelan government minister Ricardo Hausmann, now includes a disclaimer from the FT following its publication on Thursday, “It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,” reads the editorial note at the top of the piece. “The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” the statement continues.
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Harvard professor slammed for using AI to write to write anti-Trump op-ed: ‘Worst slop I’ve seen’
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