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Professor Caught Using ChatGPT When Scientific Paper Was Full of Errors (futurism.com)

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A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don't exist.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's like the aeroplane lawyer case some time ago. People treat the computer as an arbiter of truth, and/or think checking is just asking the chatbot "Did you use a real citation for this?".