For this task I chose to examine AI fictions and I was drawn to an article on how fake articles were coming out and being published in The Guardian. The article talked about how the editing team at this publication sought out finding the falsified articles and how the newest concern that surfaced through this was not just the use of ChatGPT to write it, but to also completely fabricate the courses. The entire citation process is now jeopardized as well. This is very concerning for journalists who base their careers on credibility and presenting factual information to the public. It likewise is concerning for myself as an educator as I see the use of these AI tools more and more for students to cheat and generate writing assignments rather than do the work/research themselves. They are not only generating their writing pieces, but they most certainly are not checking the work for “facts” and if sources are real. This is a black hole of problems that is widening day by day. In another provided article they also call this fabrication by AI as “AI Hallucination”. It appears Chat GPT, Bard, and others are trying to create additional tech tools to combat this, but nothing is definitive yet. This article discusses how new chatbots and tech are being created as tools for news sources and educators to fight the falsification of AI. According to the article over 4.4 trillion dollars have already been invested to create AI challenge tools to validate sources and reliability. More combat tools will be useful in the fight against inappropriate use of AI for educators and other careers in the future. In the mean time they encourage teachers and sources to use AI detectors to not only test content but now citation sources as well. The laundry list of concerns continues….
