Plagiarism: "The shortest thesis I read was three pages"

Debora Weber-Wulff is a retired professor of media informatics and a plagiarism detector. In 2011 she was involved in the most prominent German plagiarism case: the doctoral thesis of the then Federal Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. A conversation about plagiarism hunting as a weapon, ChatGPT and why she would rather try to decipher her students’ handwriting than use software.

ZEIT ONLINE : In the USA, fund manager Bill Ackman is planning the largest plagiarism check of all time; he wants to have the entire management team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology checked. There had previously been allegations of plagiarism against his wife, who teaches at MIT. Is the search for plagiarism still about academic integrity or about revenge?

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