University administration is a kafkaesque environment where enthusiastic compliance with a ruleset is of foremost importance. In this context, citing a source is covering your ass. If anyone has a problem with the wording, it’s GPT’s fault. It probably never occurred to them that citing the source could get you into trouble.

ChatGPT doesn’t insert itself as a citation, it was added deliberately. For what reason is the question…I don’t say I use spellcheck when I write something with Word.