Hallucinated reference
Hey everyone,
posting this on behalf of my flatmate who is currently panicking.
They just submitted their final major coursework and admitted to me that they used ChatGPT to help structure some of it. I told them they will get caught because of the hallucinations and… while reviewing what they submitted, one of the references is completely made up (a classic AI hallucination).
The rest of the paper has a real sources and AI-assisted text.
... What is likely to happen now? Will Turnitin catch a fake reference, or does that usually happen when the marker looks it up? The course coordinator is very good at catching wrong references… What are the standard penalties for this kind of Academic Misconduct in unis?
Any advice or insight from people who have been through this (or markers) would be massively appreciated. Thanks.