“These are “hallucinated” references, a common problem in ChatGPT.
I have encountered similar problems this spring (students providing hallucinated references) & there’s already at least one article published on it:
Alkaissi, H., & McFarlane, S. I. (2023). Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing. Cureus, 15(2), e35179. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35179
Earlier in 2023, I found these videos by Phil Bradley to be helpful to alert me to the issue.
- ChatGPT for librarians at https://youtu.be/FYQT4FHnLxg
- Using ChatGPT for search https://youtu.be/7eKd4XHERhg
- ChatGPT flaws and disadvantages https://youtu.be/K5W_ANplNXk
If you google around, you can find other info – like this blog posting which sounds similar (my google query was: chat gpt librarians hallucinations)
One of them led me to this excellent references blog posting by Hannah Rozear at Duke University Library https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/03/09/chatgpt-and-fake-citations/
Regards,
Victoria Caplan ([email protected])
HKUST Library”
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