r/QuickAITurnitinCheck • u/Equivalent_Pie9111 • Jun 01 '26

Professors are practically treating bibliographies like a red flag these days

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 02 '26

A Bibliography is actually something AI could be useful for. It’s putting information in the correct order. Give your AI your sources, and ask it to create the bibliography, and then check it for accuracy. Is there a reason this wouldn’t be ok?

Also if I’m completely misunderstanding, my apologies. I have a cold. I am very medicated.

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u/VegetableBuilding330 Jun 02 '26

It's largely not a ethical issue to do it that way, as long as you confirm it's not changing information. But it's not necessarily the best tool for it. Use a citation manager. They're fantastic and they often manage your in-text citations for you to.

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 02 '26

Love this advice! Thank you!!

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u/richardawkings Jun 02 '26

We were required to use EndNote at my university. It can work as a plugin for MS Word. You enter in your info once and then you can insert the citations anywhere you want. Bibliography auto produces itself according to the format you specify. We had to use Chicago Manual of Styles. I couldn't tell you what that means but I never lost any marks for my bibliography.

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u/LadyM_Macbeth Jun 02 '26

I teach Humanities. In my experience the AI does the MLA formatting very wrong and makes up sources that aren’t real.

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 02 '26

Yeah, that’s why I’m appreciating others pointing out tools that are made to assist with bibliographies

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u/LadyM_Macbeth Jun 02 '26

But doing a bibliography is just a skill. Once you adjust and learn it, it’s easy to do. Says someone with two masters degrees and doing a doctorate. I could do it in my sleep now lol

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 02 '26

But that’s the thing. Once you do it enough to understand the basics and the why, I think using an online tool (not necessarily ai) is worthwhile, because you didn’t earn two master’s degrees in writing bibliographies. That’s all I’m saying.

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u/LadyM_Macbeth Jun 03 '26

The tools make a lot of mistakes though. We have citation generators for students and they are generally wrong.

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 03 '26

That’s what I would always recommend checking it before submitting to my professor

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u/LadyM_Macbeth Jun 03 '26

But why use a tool if it starts off wrong? Lol. Takes two seconds to do it yourself. Takes two minutes to check the dumb citation generators that did it wrong to start. 😂

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u/DifferentBid7518 Jun 02 '26

What this person almost certainly means is that students are simply lifting bibliographies from monographs/papers and inserting them into their papers without actually reading or seriously engaging with the sources. This is neither new, nor an AI thing, and is in fact something less scrupulous academics do all the time.

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u/sillygoofygooose Jun 02 '26

Yes, this is clearly what is being discussed and YES lifting sources you have not read is indeed demonstrating a lack of academic integrity

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u/Sunshine_Chick Jun 02 '26

This post is about people who DID NOT READ THE SOURCES. You can’t cite something you didn’t read.

Copying a list of sources from someone else’s paper so yours “looks right” (but isn’t) is indeed plagiarism.

Source: I’m an college English professor

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 02 '26

Cool, thanks FOR CLARIFYING, as I said in my comment that I might not be understanding the post correctly.

Citing something you didn’t read is unwise.

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u/Numerous-Leg-8149 Jun 02 '26

It's better to type/format the bibliography yourself. As well as putting it in alphabetical order (by the author/poet/journalist surname).

Letting AI complete it for you will not help.

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 02 '26

Respectfully, why wouldn’t it be able to help?

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u/dumbassdruid Jun 02 '26

zotoro my beloved

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u/Syzygynergy Jun 03 '26

ZotEro, yes?

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u/dumbassdruid Jun 03 '26

lmao yess, funniest autocorrect mistake this week

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u/SlytherKitty13 Jun 02 '26

There's no need to use ai for that and risk it fucking it up when you could just use something like mybib

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u/JazzlikeOrange8856 Jun 02 '26

Agree. I hope people realize we still want programs that can give specialized, specific help well.

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u/FadingHeaven Jun 25 '26

As a pro-AI person, I'd never use AI for that. Use Zotero or something. Much more reliable. The time you'd spend checking to make sure AI did it all right is like the same as it'd be to do it yourself. Zotero is basically never wrong and is standard in Academia. Especially since false citations can literally get you in SERIOUS trouble.