Newfoundland’s 10-Year Education Report Calling For Ethical AI Use Contains Over 15 Fake Sources

Newfoundland and Labrador’s 10-year Education Accord report (PDF) intended to guide school reform has been found to contain at least 15 fabricated citations, including references to non-existent films and journals. Academics suggest the fake sources may have been generated by AI. “There are sources in this report that I cannot find in the MUN Library, in the other libraries I subscribe to, in Google searches. Whether that’s AI, I don’t know, but fabricating sources is a…