@ethanwhite @powersoffour so, be consistent, model the behavior, and reiterate again and again the *why* we do it this way.

If you want the students to use it, then you need to use it too. It is a great way to capture all those little pieces of knowledge about navigating university bureaucracy, experimental designs, and if you analyze other people's data, their designs too. 😉

@powersoffour @ethanwhite our lab uses a wiki too (we keep project specific and university stuff behind a login, so you don't see much on the front page).

It becomes second nature in our lab. The first learning task for our lab members is to install Linux in a VM setup to allow access using lab credentials, etc. All the directions for that are on the wiki. 😉

And then all to do lists for a project initially start on the wiki, and we record what we've worked on in a given week there too.

@ct_bergstrom It turns out that those citations are ENTIRELY MADE UP.

Even though one would expect that the ACLU and Wired would've written about the NSA's collection practices, as far as I can tell, those articles never existed; nor did the Times or Smithsonian articles on Clever Hans even though it would've been natural to see such a piece in their pages.

Even the URLs are constructed to look plausible. But they're total fictions. I think.

Very creepy construction of fake knowledge.

Playing around with #OpenAI's #GPT3 text generator led me to perhaps the creepiest behavior yet. As @ct_bergstrom noted, the AI bots are able to cite the sources of their own writing.

I decided to see if it could function as a plagiarism detector. But when I put a few snippets of my own writing in, it found several uncited sources. (Attached.)

Aha! Someone must have plagiarized me! Or so I thought. But the truth was much stranger....