AI can help with academic research but doesn’t always get it right – here are some tips to check the information you receive

Librarians outlined steps for students and researchers to evaluate artificial intelligence tools during academic work. Because chatbots often produce errors and mirror user biases, researchers must match tools to specific tasks and trace claims back to original sources.

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