{"id":15247,"date":"2025-03-29T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:29:54","slug":"chatgpt-is-a-dirty-rotten-liar-see-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2025\/03\/29\/chatgpt-is-a-dirty-rotten-liar-see-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT is a dirty rotten liar&#8230;see for yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you&#8217;re a student using ChatGPT for other AI for your research paper, please read this carefully &#8211; it could save your bacon. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re a teacher struggling to convince your students of the perils of AI-driven research, this post might help.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I was writing about cultural differences in morality. I spent hours trying to find a simple study that investigated cultural differences to answers on the trolley problem. In my desperation I turned to ChatGPT. Knowing that it makes stuff up when it doesn&#8217;t know, I was very clear in my instructions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;Can you give me a\u00a0<strong>real study that actually happened\u00a0<\/strong>that shows differences in moral decision-making between eastern adn (sic) western cultures?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The image below is what it gave me. It&#8217;s so convincing. The problem is&#8230;this study doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15248\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2025\/03\/29\/chatgpt-is-a-dirty-rotten-liar-see-for-yourself\/chatgpt-is-a-dirty-rotten-liar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15248\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15248\" class=\" wp-image-15248\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=542%2C486&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=1024%2C919&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=300%2C269&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=768%2C690&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=1536%2C1379&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=2048%2C1839&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=100%2C90&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=906%2C813&amp;ssl=1 906w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/ChatGPT-is-a-dirty-rotten-LIAR-.png?resize=1200%2C1077&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ChatGPT explains this study so convincingly you&#8217;d think it&#8217;s real &#8211; it&#8217;s NOT!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT has the same philosophy as my older brother &#8211; &#8220;if you don&#8217;t know something just say it with enough authority and people will believe you.&#8221; I searched and searched for this study, but it doesn&#8217;t exit. The closest I could find was this one&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15249\" style=\"width: 796px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2025\/03\/29\/chatgpt-is-a-dirty-rotten-liar-see-for-yourself\/screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07-40-25\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15249\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15249\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=786%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=1024%2C217&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=300%2C64&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=768%2C163&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=1536%2C325&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=100%2C21&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=906%2C192&amp;ssl=1 906w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?resize=1200%2C254&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-29-at-07.40.25.png?w=1644&amp;ssl=1 1644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s close &#8211; but this study is not about morality.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If I never bothered to fact-check ChatGPT, I might have written about something that never happened. This solidified for me the limitations of AI for research. If I have to double-check everything in Google Scholar anyway, why not just start there? Most of my students learn Google Scholar is faster and better in the long-run. It does take time, but when they found the study they&#8217;ve been hunting for they get to experience the most rewarding thing in research &#8211; the joy of academic discovery!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m pleased to say Google Scholar finally trumped ChatGPT and I was able to find a simple yet fascinating study that compared British and American participants&#8217; responses to the trolley problem. It showed Chinese participants preferred to do nothing, maybe because of the importance of fate in Chinese culture (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/judgment-and-decision-making\/article\/cultural-differences-in-responses-to-reallife-and-hypothetical-trolley-problems\/E7A67F75ED3F26D5AFB483F9CFAEF9D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a>). A simple example of a sociocultural factor in moral development &#8211; being raised with different cultural values will influence moral decision-making.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-align: center;\">Can students use AI for research?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Before my students start a research project I give clear instructions on appropriate and inappropriate uses of AI. My guidance is to use it like google &#8211; it can tell you <em>where to find<\/em> information, but should not be a <em>source<\/em> of information. I also remind them that we&#8217;re trainee psychologists learning how to do the research that discovers knowledge that goes <em>into\u00a0<\/em>ChatGPT for other people, we should not be the ones taking the information\u00a0<em>from\u00a0<\/em>ChatGPT. If they as the next generation of psychologists don&#8217;t learn psychology, AI can&#8217;t possibly learn anything new. In this way, I try to get them to understand the deeper reason\u00a0<em>why <\/em>they can&#8217;t use AI for information in my class.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Can students use AI for writing?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The IB has harsh penalties for academic dishonesty, including <strong>plagiarism <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own. Most students don&#8217;t realise that using AI to do their writing for them is plagiarism. If I was a student and had taken ChatGPTs study above and copied it into my IA or EE and my teacher or examiner fact-checked the source, found it didn&#8217;t exist, it could jeopardise my entire IB diploma. Similarly, writing something, copying and pasting into ChatGPT and asking it to rewrite it <em>is\u00a0<\/em>plagiarism &#8211; it&#8217;s presenting another&#8217;s words as if they&#8217;re your own. Using it for simple spelling and grammar checks is fine, rewriting whole sections is not. It&#8217;s no different to getting a friend or a tutor to rewrite your essay for you.<\/p>\n<p>At least, this is my interpretation of academic dishonesty rules in the modern world of AI. I&#8217;m always open to being proven wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a student using ChatGPT for other AI for your research paper, please read this carefully &#8211; it could save your bacon. 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