Referencing bug

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Hi

I am a researcher working on entrepreneurs’ emotions and exit topics. knowing the literature, I asked ai for the following question “conduct a literature review on entrepreneurs’ emotional disengagement and business exit and provide review paper references”.
The response included non-existing articles, all authored by “by J.J. Chrisman, J.B. Chua, and P. Sharma,”. I double checked the journals, my university library, and scholar, making sure the references don’t exits.

I then posted a short paragraph from one of my publications and asked ai to edit it so it’s more engaging. The result included a direct quote from my own article including a a term that I’ve coined, but referenced J.J. Chrisman, J.B. Chua, and P. Sharma (the same as above)!

I hope openAi team could help solve this bug.

Thanks

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Hey, welcome to the forum.

You’re not the first person to run into this…

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