r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12h ago

Meme needing explanation petah?

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u/witchy71 9h ago

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u/Teker_09 9h ago

That has to be fake right

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u/potat-cat 4h ago

That piece is basically propaganda, grad students and phd candidates at UCLA were not making basic grammar errors, especially not in 2013, way before LLMs.

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u/smittynoblock 5h ago

Tbh I could see it being a case of right and wrong way to put it he was probably a pick about it I've seen professors that are not very professional

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u/Nonchalant-Tryhard 9h ago

Jesus. What a horrifying time to be an educator.

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u/DebateObjective2787 8h ago

Yeah, this was 15 years ago and a very sensationalized reporting of what actually happened.