My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!-Chapter 782 - 471: The Gospel for the Multitude of Students_2

Chapter 782: Chapter 471: The Gospel for the Multitude of Students_2

"The ’First Year of Doctorate’ brought about social questioning of the entire academic system, indirectly forcing major universities to lower the redundancy rate of their academic papers."

Some institutions reduced the redundancy check rate of graduation theses from the original 30% to 20%, and stricter ones even dropped it below 8%."

The vast majority of students never expected that the juicy gossip from the entertainment industry would hit them too, so they could only be befuddled and revise their papers overnight with tears."

"Woo-woo~ Doctor, can you reimburse the plagiarism check fees?"

"I’m not asking for much, just for you to buy Spider Web and make the plagiarism checks public."

"Back in my day, it was 180 per check, now it’s 600 per check—who can understand this pain?"

"I loved you, it was once such a clear and firm belief, yet with your ’unknown about Spider Web,’ you shattered our beliefs!"

"It’s fine if you don’t understand, pretending not to understand isn’t a big deal either, but why the hell are you pretending to be ignorant!"

"The third time my advisor rejected it, there goes my weekly allowance... Woo-woo..."

"If I hated you then, blackened your name then, maybe the ending would be different, but now... do you know how many regrets and hopes I have?"

Just by looking at Dr. Zhai’s微博 with 999+ comments, one can tell how much people curse him."

And predictably, each graduation season in the future will likely be greeted by a massive number of graduating students."

"Doesn’t the school have a free plagiarism check policy?"

Smoking a cigarette beside him and tinkering with the computer program, Zheng Qiu casually said with indifference."

"Each person only gets two checks, what’s the use of that, don’t you know the average number of revisions for a thesis has now headed towards three times? The extra checks still have to be paid for with our funds," Yu Hua rolled his eyes."

Even though Dr. Zhai’s degrees are from Yan Dian, and his postdoc notification was issued by Yanjing University, these two institutions are the eye of the storm."

"But being a key institution in the same educational district as Shuimu, it’s undoubtedly shivering with fear, afraid of being caught by someone and getting dragged down."

So, the intensity of this year’s thesis review process is self-evident..."

"Then we’ll just use our own funds then."

"Ha! You have no idea how expensive things are when you’re not handling the finances—spending money without even blinking, do you know our finances are about to be in deficit this year?"

"Hey, hey, hey! How can you call it reckless spending? Servers, GPUs, all were bought for our grand and noble scientific ideals!"

"And those Bitcoin Miners, were they also bought for our grand and noble scientific ideals?"

"Uh..."

Zheng Qiu coughed awkwardly."

"We technical folks can’t just innovate in isolation; we also need to draw upon the leading blockchain technology. Buying a couple of them to modify the algorithms, what’s the problem with that?"

"Modify the algorithms?" Yu Hua’s eyes lit up."

"Elder Zheng, be honest with me, are you taking on private jobs on the side?"

At this remark, Zheng Qiu looked around somewhat guiltily before speaking in a low voice."

"Keep your voice down, if I don’t take on some private jobs, with our lab’s funds, what can we possibly do?"

Yu Hua couldn’t help but curl his lips."

"You also know what a mess our lab’s funding is.

I’ve been telling you, take some time to visit the leaders’ offices more often, a bottle of Moutai might just get the funds released.

After all, being in the workforce for over a decade should make you understand a bit more about the workings of the world than us who aren’t out in society yet..."

Zheng Qiu exhaled a ring of smoke with a sigh, his expression somewhat obscured by the swirling smoke."

"Our problem is that too many elites are concerned with worldly wisdom.

If even we start focusing on worldly wisdom, then who’s left to focus on the technology?"

Yu Hua fell silent for a moment, waving his hand irritably."

"Forget it, forget it, there’s no hope relying on you. I’ll go online and find other plagiarism resources. Although it’s a hassle, we’ll save as much as we can."

Zheng Qiu put on a jocular face."

"Oh my! True to my number one disciple and chief steward. To have such an outstanding disciple, I am truly comforted!"

"Scram!"

"Young man, don’t be so aggressive. Relax, once we finish this job, let’s go buy an Idol electric car first!"

"Really?" Yu Hua’s eyes lit up.

"Of course! Which high-end Artificial Intelligence lab in Beijing doesn’t buy cars?"

Speaking of this just pisses me off! These damned merchants with their unethical bundled sales!" Professor Zheng Qiu was seething with anger.

"Hmm... better not though, a car costs seventy or eighty thousand, and who knows when you’ll even get one in line. Let’s just wait a bit longer, a product as impressive as ’Bajie’ can’t be kept under wraps forever."

"Alright, alright! Let’s just listen to the major-domo!"

Yu Hua, feeling drained, couldn’t bother with him anymore and helplessly opened Baidu to start searching for some plagiarism detection resources online.

Unfortunately, after searching for a while, the top-ranking plagiarism detection websites either sold dubious products with no guarantee of data security for the papers.

Or they were full of tricks, ending in a complex procedure that just leads to a payment QR code.

Checking the price, damn, even darker than Spider Web!

Yu Hua felt even more exhausted...

Due to differences in plagiarism detection system databases and algorithms, the results varied across different websites.

Generally, the institution would recommend a plagiarism detection system, often Spider Web.

The monopolistic market dominance of Spider Web in journal paper detection was undeniable, with a market share nearing an outrageous 100%!

Spider Web’s university accounts were typically only open for registrations during the dissertation season each year, offering each student one or two opportunities for free plagiarism checks.

However, students often needed to run multiple checks to sufficiently adjust their papers to meet the school’s strict requirements on plagiarism rates.

This led to a massive market for self-paid paper plagiarism checks.

Yet, Spider Web’s sly practice was, it didn’t allow individuals to register accounts for plagiarism checks!

If you wanted to use Spider Web for checks, you could only go through the university library and pay the corresponding fee to get the service.

After Dr. Zhai’s incident erupted, Spider Web quickly recognized a historic opportunity and decisively started a price-hiking mode, with prices more than tripling.

Currently, a small essay of about 3000 words cost 68 yuan on Spider Web, whereas Wei Pu and Wanfang only charged 12 yuan and 7.8 yuan, respectively.

This graduation season hasn’t even ended yet, and Spider Web’s income from plagiarism checks has already skyrocketed several times over.

From this perspective, Dr. Zhai could indeed be called Spider Web’s best assist-maker of the year!

Hmm... or perhaps it’s fair to say that Duan Xian really received a golden "ad placement" back in the day...

Of course, students could also choose not to be easy prey and pay for plagiarism services from other companies on the internet.

But, as everyone knows, most findings are just advertisements...

This is precisely why the strong demand for plagiarism checks each year forces many students to spend a substantial amount on various so-called plagiarism services, yet they struggle to obtain high-quality results.

While competitors like Wanfang open their plagiarism services to individual users, Spider Web steadfastly refuses to serve individuals.

This practice forces universities to spend millions annually to purchase database services from Spider Web, significantly increasing the cost of knowledge sharing.

That’s monopoly for you, you know you’re being treated like a cash cow, but you just can’t help it.

Such is the frustration of many universities and students...

"Huh?"

Just as Yu Hua was about to give up, ready to take the hit, he suddenly noticed a familiar company name appearing on the far end of page 8 of the search results...

Baiyeji!

He paused for a second.

As the most talked-about AI product "Bajie" is under development, it naturally attracted the attention of industry insiders, especially those in the field of Artificial Intelligence research.

He and his mentor, Elder Zheng, had taken a special interest in it and discovered that every one of their products was a masterpiece, which greatly impressed them.

In the eyes of many professional and technical talents, Baiyeji, a company that has suddenly risen, has already begun to take on a bit of a legendary character...

At first, Yu Hua thought the search result he saw was a counterfeit.

But following the link, he indeed entered the official website of Baiyeji...

"Elder Zheng, come look, Baiyeji has launched a new product, and it’s a knowledge-sharing platform!"

"What?"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Qiu was startled, the next second, he kicked off and glided over to Yu Hua’s computer desk on his office chair.

He stared at the page on the computer, muttering to himself...

"Wisdom... Tree?"

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