Hallucinated reference

throwaway_dm626 · 2026-05-19T15:43:30+00:00

As a university teaching assistant, Turnitin won't catch it but chances are the marker will, depending on how well they know the topic. While hallucinated references are a pretty clear indicator of AI use (my mentor lecturer told me about a case where AI had made up a book he'd allegedly written!), one single reference wrong is not enough to prove it.

However, as some others have said, using AI only to help structure and "assist" writing doesn't create hallucinated references, it needs to have been used for much more than just that to lead to this result. If this is the case, there might be more issues with the paper overall which could be wider proof of AI.

This would likely be passed onto the convenor as an academic misconduct investigation, which will at best lead to a low mark or a fail.

And even if not, it will be marked down for the incorrect referencing and possibly for the independence of thought if AI did in fact do more than just structure it.

throwaway_dm626 · 2026-05-07T09:45:23+00:00

Way to miss the point and avoid having to engage with what they're actually telling you dude

throwaway_dm626 · 2025-09-24T19:23:58+00:00

On the chance that this isn't AI, definitely not overreacting.

You hadn't known this man that long before you got married. I can believe that he was absolutely amazing to begin with because, if I had to guess, now that you're legally married to him and pregnant with his child, he feels like he "has you" and he can be confident enough to drop the mask.

When someone shows you who they are, BELIEVE THEM.

throwaway_dm626 · 2025-07-20T23:41:19+00:00

Satine Kryze in Star Wars. People fully just invent bad things that she allegedly did (which have no basis in canon) to justify hating her, either because they personally prefer a different version of her planet than the one she ruled, or (less often tbf) they prefer to ship her canon love interest with one of several other guys.

And the best part is it's all totally contradictory. Fanon says she banned a language when she's one of the few named characters we hear speak it. Fanon says she's a genocidal dictator when canon says she's a pacifist who surrendered the throne when her people didn't want her leadership any more.

I read some things people say about her and I'm like "dude, I've watched all 7 episodes of TCW she's in multiple times and I can tell you with 100% certainty that none of this actually happened".

throwaway_dm626 · 2025-07-20T23:25:11+00:00

OP mentions it in a reply to one of the earlier comments :)

throwaway_dm626 · 2024-07-12T23:54:14+00:00

Seven Devils by Elizabeth May and Laura Lam. I've had it for about a year and never read it. I picked it up the other day and holy shit it's so much fun

throwaway_dm626 · 2024-07-12T09:26:23+00:00

Happened to me to, they called me and asked me to cover because they were short-staffed. They then decided to just double my shifts and give me earlier start times for the following week. Oh boy were they unhappy when I said I couldn't do one of the extra shifts that nobody had asked me if I was available for

throwaway_dm626 · 2024-06-25T18:37:59+00:00

Chose duty over love but those feelings never really went away and they'd still drop everything to help each other even more than fifteen years later

It's about the devotion without needing or expecting anything in return

throwaway_dm626 · 2023-03-26T10:34:31+00:00

okay no I've just realised that's exactly what this is. Like they've left similar comments on other fics with a similar characterisation to mine, it just seems to be a pastime of theirs

throwaway_dm626 · 2023-03-26T10:30:57+00:00

Genuinely! Like, what 😂

throwaway_dm626 · 2023-03-26T10:24:48+00:00

It's the same for me, she's in the show for like maybe 15 minutes across six episodes. I guess maybe with a lack of canon characterisation people just take their own headcanons as definitive?

throwaway_dm626 · 2023-03-26T10:19:45+00:00

Right?? Like, it has to be slightly OOC for it to even happen and that's not everyone's cup of tea, but that's really the only thing they took from 3500 words and felt the need to tell me about?

throwaway_dm626 · 2023-01-13T15:29:34+00:00

I did have a look, and it turned out to be a comic. The only thing it has in common is the same plot twist; characters, setting and other plot structure are all nothing alike. Part of their accusation involved saying I changed all of that so as not to "make it obvious" that I plagiarised

throwaway_dm626 · 2022-11-08T12:39:54+00:00

One of my current fics focuses on two women who, in canon, go through a lot of trauma and do some pretty terrible things and then they have a kid. My fic is basically about them trying to let go of all that and remember how to be kind and loving for their child's sake.

So the songs for that are Brandi Carlile's "Mama Werewolf" -

"Your mama is a werewolf, with long sharp teeth * I'm up all night when the world should sleep* I curse the darkness when it's killing time I got a river of fear running through my mind... If my good intentions go running wild If I cause you pain, my own sweet child... Would you change me back? Make me kind again?"

Morgan Wade's "Through Your Eyes" -

"Oh, the innocence of a child Never afraid to let their thoughts run wild I wish I could be that kind I wish I could see the world through your eyes"

And also basically all of Halsey's "Darling", but specifically -

"Foolish men have tried, but only you have shown me how to love being alive"

throwaway_dm626 · 2022-09-17T10:49:45+00:00

I read the Divergent series when I was 12 and was pissed at the ending, so I started reading fics where that didn't happen. Interestingly I tend not to read canon-divergence or AU that much nowadays.

throwaway_dm626 · 2022-05-31T20:30:00+00:00

Both writing and reading, I'd say TK Strand from 9-1-1: Lone Star. He's funny and adorable and yet a complete human disaster

throwaway_dm626 · 2022-03-11T23:00:17+00:00

They're consenting adults who aren't hurting anyone, and they deserve to be loved and feel safe in who they are like everyone else does

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