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Newfoundland's 10-Year Education Report Calling For Ethical AI Use Contains Over 15 Fake Sources
Newfoundland and Labrador's 10-year Education Accord report (PDF) intended to guide school reform has been found to contain at least 15 fabricated citations, including references to non-existent films and journals. Academics suggest the fake sources may have been generated by AI. "There are sources ...
Newfoundland and Labrador's 10-year Education Accord report(PDF) intended to guide school reform has been found to contain at least 15 fabricated citations, including references to non-existent films and journals. But the exact citation used in the report can be found in a University of Victoria style guide-- a document that clearly lists fake references designed as templates for researchers writing a bibliography. Made-up citations are a totally different thing where you essentially demolish the trustworthiness of the material," said Josh Lepawsky, the former president of the Memorial University Faculty Association who resigned from the report's advisory board last January, citing a "deeply flawed process" leading to "top-down" recommendations.
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