The current version of ChatGPT sometimes creates fake references! Fake references might therefore be an indicator of ChatGPT output!
A look at what ChatGPT had to say about Greek-Cypriot phonetics and phonology
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Written by Katarzyna Alexander, PhD, Department of Languages and Literature
Dr Katarzyna Alexander holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of York, (the UK), and an MA in English Philology from Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan (Poland). Her research interests include voicing patterns of Greek Cypriot plosives as well as the perception of voicing in English plosives by Greek Cypriot learners of English, and its influence on spelling in English by Greek Cypriots. Her research in sound perception is carried out within Exemplar Theory framework.
Katarzyna has taught English as a Foreign Language in various institutions in Poland, the UK and Cyprus. She also has done many Polish-English and English-Polish translations.
Dr Alexander is interested in using Internet technology in teaching English. She was one of the authors of an online English course offered by “IDEA” Language Centre in Poznan (Poland). In addition, she has designed several Internet lessons for low-level learners of English, created online courses for Academic Writing, Technical Writing and English Phonetics and Phonology courses taught at the University of Nicosia. She has assisted in the creation of e-learning materials for the Business Communications course at the University of Nicosia. She is also a long-standing member of the Editorial Board for Teaching English with Technology Journal and has participated in several Learning Design events.
Please Note, My York University PhD Title Was Perception Of The Boundary Between Singleton And Geminate Plosives By Greek Cypriots: A Sociophonetic Perspective (Downloadable On Academia.Edu – Click Here)
A quick update on ChatGPT performance.
Just letting you know I found out that ChatGPT generates fake sources (references) in the essays it writes. While I was testing how Chat GPT would cope with a basic assignment on Greek–Cypriot phonetics and phonology, it generated references to two sources that do not exist (see the screenshot below):
1. The first reference, L. G. Alexander (2011). “The phonology of Cypriot Greek.” Journal of Greek Linguistics, 11(1), pp. 1-56., if you go to the journal and the required number/volume, you cannot see the source references by CHATGPT (see: https://brill.com/view/journals/jgl/11/1/jgl.11.issue-1.xml)
2. The second reference, K. D. Filos (2008). “Greek Cypriot phonology: A generative perspective.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Cyprus., neither the PhD thesis nor the author can be found on Google or UCY library.
3. G. Horrocks (1997). “Generative grammar and the dialects of Modern Greek.” In: K. D. Filos (ed.), Greek Linguistics ’95, pp. 1-24 => there is a book “Greek Linguistics ‘95” in UCY library, these are proceedings of a conference; however, the book is not edited by K.D. Filos (see: https://eds.s.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=65eaaa16-77f4-4555-a8db-257c8a5676b3%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLGNvb2tpZSZzaXRlPWVkcy1saXZl#AN=uclc.b1178462&db=cat07739a)
I found similar issues when generating essays for our Chat GPT project. (see the screenshot below):
4. The D.O.I. in Flynn, A. (2020). Sustainability in Construction Materials. Journal of Cleaner Production, 251, 119907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.119907 does not exist. The Journal of Cleaner Production exists, but the referenced article has not been published there.
5. The D.O.I. in Mendes, M. (2016). The Role of Energy Efficiency in Mitigating CO2 Emissions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 57, 1219-1230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.106 takes you to a completely different source than the referenced one. The journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews exists, but the referenced article is not there.