May 23, 2025

MORE PROBLEMS with AI - FAKE REFERENCES

I am not a fan of what AI is doing to research across the world. Here is another example of problems with AI. 

One of my colleagues from another university was sharing that she had been marking student papers recently and saw that they had cited these papers - EXCEPT THEY ARE MADE UP! My colleague knew I hadn't written them and that they were fake - so now the students' papers are being referred for follow-up action.

  • FAKE REFERENCE - McCormack, J., McLeod, S., & McAllister, L. (2010). Social communication and speech sound disorders: A review of research evidence. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53(4), 1041-1050. https://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2009/09-0199) - FAKE REFERENCE
  • FAKE REFERENCE - McLeod, S., & McCormack, J. (2015). Participation in everyday life for children with speech sound disorders. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17(2), 130–140. https://doi.org/10.3109/17549507.2014.980751 - FAKE REFERENCE
The authors, titles, and journals are convincing - but the actual references are FAKE!