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AI chatbots like ChatGPT are not search engines. These programs use a predictive model to determine the word that is most likely to come next in a sentence and are only as good as their training data.
AI programs also have a citation issue; They don't always include sources for their generated content and when a citation is included, it can be fake, incorrect, or may not actually support the generated content it is presented with. Be skeptical of the information you get from AI programs.
AI Search Has A Citation Problem By Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar published March 6, 2025
Created by Rebecca Sweetman - Associate Director of Learning Environments at Queen's University
When you find an article or book that is useful for your research, you probably know to consult its bibliography or reference list to find other potentially relevant sources. In this way, you're tracing the scholarly conversation backwards in time. But you can also trace citations forward to find newer scholarship that cites the source you have in hand.
You can also search within the results to find only sources that mention a particular work or other keyword.
You can also try Google Scholar's "Related articles" link, which uses Google's proprietary algorithms to pull up similar articles.
