Spotting Fake Citations from AI Quiz

Answers and explanations appear as you take the quiz.

1. Why can a chatbot produce a citation that doesn't exist?
   • It copies citations from a secret database of fake papers
   • It predicts likely text, and citations follow a predictable format it can imitate
   • It is programmed to test whether students check sources
   • It only makes up citations when asked about recent events
2. Which kind of bad citation does the guide call the hardest to spot?
   • A completely made-up reference
   • A real author paired with an invented title
   • A reference with the wrong year
   • A real, correctly cited paper that doesn't support the claim
3. What happened in Mata v. Avianca in 2023?
   • Lawyers were sanctioned for citing cases ChatGPT invented
   • A university banned chatbots in research
   • A publisher sued an AI company over citations
   • A court ruled AI citations are always admissible
4. When checking a DOI, what should you confirm after opening it through doi.org?
   • That the page loads quickly
   • That the DOI is shorter than 20 characters
   • That the paper it opens has the same title and authors as the citation
   • That the journal is free to read
5. What should you do if you can't verify a source?
   • Keep it but move it to a footnote
   • Remove it
   • Ask the chatbot to confirm it
   • Replace the DOI with a URL
6. Why is asking the chatbot 'Is this citation real?' not a reliable check?
   • Chatbots can't read their own earlier messages
   • It takes too long
   • Chatbots always say the citation is fake
   • The model can produce a confident yes as easily as it produced the fake reference
7. What kind of error remains common in retrieval-augmented tools, according to the guide?
   • Misattribution, where a real linked source doesn't fully support the claim
   • DOIs that are always missing
   • Citations only in foreign languages
   • Refusing to give any sources
8. Which of these is a red flag listed in the guide?
   • The paper has more than three authors
   • The source is older than five years
   • A journal name that is slightly off from the real journal
   • The article has an abstract