Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

@L_howes

Ha! It sounds like the a paper I once evaluated. It had lots of fake but plausible references and I the plagiarized texts it had lifted were on point. It was clearly work of a sophisticated “I’ll write your term paper for pay” service.

(In Venezuela I had no access to plagiarism detectors, except googling every piece of suspect text. The cheaters count on the underpaid professors to not do that).

@gabigueron In a reinforcing biases note, it turned out the sentence/data was lifted from a press release from the guy's own company.