NOT EVEN A GENTLEMAN’S C: Harvard Professor Faces Backlash for Allegedly Using AI to Draft Anti-Trump Op-Ed.

A Harvard professor is facing scrutiny after critics alleged that a Financial Times opinion piece he authored criticizing President Trump was largely produced with artificial intelligence, with some online commentators dismissing it as “slop.”

The column, written by Ricardo Hausmann, a former Venezuelan government minister and Harvard Kennedy School academic, was published Thursday and has since been updated with an editor’s note from the FT.

“It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,” the note at the top of the article states.

“The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” the statement adds.

The disclosure followed a wave of criticism on social media, where readers flagged the op-ed — which took aim at Trump’s tariffs — for prose they described as awkward and unnaturally polished.

“Gotta be the worst AI slop I’ve seen in a major publication,” one user wrote on X.

But did it contain any references to Madagascar?