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Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by MisterBastahrd on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:09PM (#34318425)
When I was in third grade, I had to show the intermediate steps I used to formulate an answer to prove that I knew how to do the task. This has two benefits: (1) it gets students in the habit of working through a problem methodically, and (2) it lets teachers assign partial credit when students get the methodology correct but make a simple error.

Similarly, this is why we students have been required to cite sources instead of simply rendering an opinion on a topic. Most of these AI bots are just fancy plagiarism machines.

Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by m463 on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:40PM (#34319771)
I wonder if you can get them to cite their sources too?
Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by roywiggins on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:23PM (#34320125)
ChatGPT will usually just confidently hallucinate references that sound like they might exist, but don't.
Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by rsfern on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:52AM (#34322525)
For queries in my field (materials science), chatGPT actually seems pretty good about citing real sources, often one of the canonical sources for the topic

An acquaintance who works in the NLP space says this is done in post processing, where GPT probably hallucinates a reference but they run a web query or something to try to fix it up.

Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by tester457 on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:25PM (#34320144)
> make paper with gpt

> find appropriate sources and cite them later

Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by asdff on Monday January 09, 2023 @11:45PM (#34320626)
That's almost more work than just writing the paper yourself as you find the sources the first time
Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by lupire on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:41AM (#34325524)
Ask GPT for the sources.