💫 This is such an impressive set of research Ben put together for this post.

He really hits home on Rufo’s case (Rufo was effective versus Harvard because he used their own rules about plagiarism against them) being brought to light the perceptions of institutional authority in the digital age, where the value of information and social capital is seen differently compared to the traditional, analog world.

The lawsuit filed by nyt vs openai & microsoft over copyright infringement puts at the forefront that this impedes and competes with nyt journalism and risking the paper’s ability to provide reliable information…go figure.