In reply to: I'm in academia. posted by FaytlND
I'm sure if you fed a lot of old work through modern plagiarism finding software that you'd turn up a lot of dirt on a lot of people. There's software now that's good at catching human generated data in experiments that's led to some retractions.
I'm just surprised it's not SOP to do this before hiring a president or giving someone tenure.
It was before the AI boom, but not that long ago.
That seems to be in the early years of software.
hard time - I presume that you mean the early years of the type of software used to check references in papers and such.
I was talking about my wife. Sorry.