From the course: How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools

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Using AI to find sources and generate citations

Using AI to find sources and generate citations

From the course: How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools

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Using AI to find sources and generate citations

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- In the first edition of this course, I told people not to rely on AI to give sources and citations, and that was absolutely correct at the time, but not anymore. These days, most AI tools are excellent at giving you accurate sources, although I do always recommend that you check them before you publish them, just as I'd recommend you check them if you're lucky enough to have a real human research assistant. The prompt I'm going to show you will do some research for us around a topic and deliver some relevant articles to us in a citation-friendly way. So let's give it a go, shall we? Right, we're in ChatGPT here. We're using ChatGPT-4, just the standard version. I'm going to toggle on web search here, and I'm going to paste in our prompt, right? Let me read the prompt out for you. "Please play the role of an academic researcher with a talent for finding relevant sources and formatting them for citation. I have pasted some information below, and I want you to find suitable academic…

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