AI Literacy

AI Source Trust Checklist: 10 Checks Before You Trust an AI Answer

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  1. 29 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

    Removed one fabricated bibliography entry and corrected two minor citation details in an otherwise accurate, well-scoped reference list.

    Before

    The bibliography included a fabricated citation ('Wachsmuth, H., & Hou, Y. (2023). Towards a theory of the credibility of online sources. Computational Argumentation Research') - no such paper, authors-in-combination, or journal venue could be found; this appears to be an invented reference. Separately, Dunlosky et al.'s real 2013 paper title was rendered as 'effective study techniques' instead of the correct 'effective learning techniques,' and Caulfield's real SIFT method work was dated 2019 instead of its original 2017 publication.

    After

    The fabricated Wachsmuth & Hou entry was removed from the bibliography. The Dunlosky citation was corrected to the real paper title. The Caulfield citation was corrected to the real 2017 publication year.

    Why: This article is structurally distinct from the rest of this batch - a carefully-scoped, self-aware checklist about detecting AI hallucination, rather than a generated article with a bolt-on fabricated research section. Independent verification found 5 of 6 bibliography entries fully real and accurately cited (Bender/Gebru/McMillan-Major/Shmitchell's Stochastic Parrots paper, Maynez et al.'s summarization faithfulness paper, and the Stanford History Education Group's Civic Online Reasoning curriculum, plus the two entries needing only minor corrections), with only one entry out of the full bibliography being outright fabricated - a much lower fabrication rate than typical for this batch.

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  1. Correction 29 July 2026

    Emir Baycan: Removed one fabricated bibliography entry and corrected two minor citation details in an otherwise accurate, well-scoped reference list.

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