Education Report Calling for Ethical AI Use Contains Over 15 Fake Sources
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An education report on ethical AI use was found to contain over 15 fake sources, sparking criticism of lazy and deceptive research practices.
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baubino
4 months ago
In order to determine that sources are indeed real, and not fabricated, when using AI for research, one would have to validate the existence of each source and verify the relevance of each source … which is basically doing the research that should have been done in the first place. Which makes the people using AI this way lazy and incompetent on top of being intentionally deceptive.
abstractspoon
4 months ago
Lol
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