I expect many of us are beginning to see student essays that are partly or wholly generated by chatGPT and friends. Reading these is a strange experience. The texts are like a fever-dream of a real essay. Almost correct, often plausible, strangely vague, sometimes insanely wrong and sometimes quite fantastical. They are textual versions of the AI pictures "woman laughing alone with salad <https://www.eatliver.com/women-laughing-alone-with-salad/>," with two rows of teeth and indeterminate numbers of fingers.
One of my favourite features is imagined bibliographies. We all enjoyed the hilarious fake indological bibliography in Lee Siegel's *Love in a Dead Language*. Now, chatGPT is producing its own almost-real bibliographical entities. E.g., from one of my students this term, - Bryant, E. F., Chakravarty, K. K., & Pal, J. N. (2001). *The excavations at Adamgarh: A Protohistoric site in Central India*. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Are you being faced with fake bibliography entries like this? Best, Dominik
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