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Hong Kong\u2019s oldest university has launched an investigation after a published academic paper by a PhD candidate was found to contain non-existent references generated by AI.<\/p>\n

The corresponding author, Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai of the social work and social administration department at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), apologised for himself and his PhD student, Bai Yiming, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The allegation first appeared on social media platform Threads, with a user saying she \u201cwas told by a friend\u201d that many of the references in the paper appeared to be the results of \u201cAI hallucination\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yip told the media he had found out that Bai, the lead author of the paper, had used artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) to help with referencing without verifying the citations herself, while he had the task of gatekeeping as the corresponding author.<\/p>\n

He claimed that, in his view, the issue did not involve academic integrity because the content of the paper, which was accepted after two rounds of academic review, was not fabricated.<\/p>\n

The paper\u2019s other authors had only given advice and helped with data analysis, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s oldest university has launched an investigation after a published academic paper by a PhD candidate was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,76660,218,2334,219,76659,76669,76668,76661,76666,61,60,76664,76665,76663,76667,80,76662,53454,430],"class_list":["post-131528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-hallucination","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bai-yiming","tag-china-population-and-development-studies","tag-faculty-of-social-sciences","tag-forty-years-of-fertility-transition-in-hong-kong","tag-hku","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-journal-of-marriage-and-family","tag-phd-candidate","tag-professor-yip-siu-fai","tag-social-work-and-social-administration-department","tag-technology","tag-the-university-of-hong-kong","tag-threads","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}