Pairents and Paitriots Worry: Homer Shantz

Homer Shantz was a prominent botanist; I knew him from early days as a vegetation mapper. And he died in the hospital of times:

. . . or so says the Google plagipedia.

When I see AI I think pla-g-i, rhyming with lazy eye. The point about "generative artificial intelligence" like ChatGPT isn't that you use it for plagiarism; it's that it is just plagiarism.

T.S. Eliot said, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different." Well, as every teacher knows, plagiarists mangle.

August is AI. And not by the way, Shantz was not from Spearfish. His story’s trailhead is on the back of Yellow More. Immature: I didn't pull this, but the citation I have is T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massinger," Selected Essays, third edition, London, 1951. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Pairents and Paitriots Worry: Homer Shantz," RSS Longa, 14 August 2025, public domain via CC0 1.0.