AI Verification Guide

1. Does it exist?

1. Google it - just copy and paste the name of the article into Google from the citations. Did you find it?
2. Is the article name exactly correct?
3. Does it match the names of all the authors?
4. Is this an article all the authors wrote together? Check their CVs.
5. Is the publication date correct? And the journal? Check that everything matches.

TAKEAWAY: Remember tokenization? AI makes up articles or mixes and matches authors and titles, messes up publication dates. If the article doesn't exist this is likely an AI paper.

2. Is it free online?

1. If you found it on Google can you read it? The whole thing?
2. Is it on Google Scholar? Anywhere else you see easily?

TAKEAWAY: AI can only use what it scraped from online (as of now). Of course our students love Google too. However, this is a sign of AI use.

3. Does FLITE own it?

1. Copy and paste the article title into SmartSearch. The majority of articles will pop up if we own them. Remember - AI can't search our subscription databases.

TAKEAWAY: The student may have at least found the article through FLITE. If FLITE doesn't own it and there is a paywall, did the student actually use the article?

4. Skim or read the article.

1. What is it about?
2. Does the research paper actually mention the article's main points? Does that paper have in-text citations? Did you require in-text citations on your rubric?
3. Does the subject matter of the article match the subject matter of the paper? (AKA a computer science article used in a sociology paper).

TAKEAWAY: An AI likely created the body of the paper with information from its dataset and created the citation separately with different information from its dataset. Tokenization in action.

5. Is that article cited correctly?

1. I don't know your rubric. Are you strict about citations? Did the AI use the correct citation format? Did your student use the correct citation format?