Why use library databases for articles?
Let's look at an answer to this question:
Is uploading a PDF of a peer reviewed scholarly article from a library into ChatGPT legal?
Try Google and read the AI overview
Association of Research Libraries blog post on training generative AI models on copyrighted works
Some Basic Best Practices with AI
- Know the terms and conditions of the platform you are using! What are the terms - who owns the input, your data, and more).
- Suggest only inputting work that you own.
- Do not provide personal information into an AI tool
- Check the information that is generated. AI tools often hallucinate, the sources and citations they provide can be FAKE.
- Use the SIFT method, if really struggling reach out to your librarians
The legal issues are still being navigated.
- An answer from an AI tool may contain works that are copyrighted and it may not provide information on where the source of the information is coming from. For more see The US Copyright Office Generative AI and Copyright Law
Popular article on ai and fake citations
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Open access article in Nature
Fabrication and errors in the bibliographic citations generated by ChatGPT
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