And the answer is simple: De Sutter is a vocal critic of Israel and has called for it to be sanctioned. So there is someone digging up dirt to damage her. Such are the methods and powers of zionists.
The speech in question was a speech given at the opening of the academic year at the second largest university in Belgium. De Sutter became rector last year. As part of her election platform, she warned about the dangers of AI in terms of plagiarism, bias and hallucinations - so in this context this is quite relevant.
Independent of the veracity of throw310822's hypothesis, this assertion is ridiculous on its face.
Even if we suspend that for a moment and assume that when they say “zionists” they do not mean “jews”, making the sort of demonizing statements about a large group people with loosely defined membership is not unlike antisemitism or islamophobia.
In this very thread throw310822 has said “Such are the methods and powers of zionists”, and that I am a zionist. So are those now my powers? Do all the tropes now apply to me?
tamara_olive•20h ago
It feels like universities should treat quotes the same way they treat statistics in papers: no citation, no usage. A ten-second verification call or even a quick check in a digital library would have caught this. I’m curious whether schools will start teaching a short “AI hygiene” module for public communications—how to annotate drafts with provenance, how to log which tools were used, etc. The reputational hit from one sloppy speech is probably worse than the hour it takes to verify the material.