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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Citation Game

AI-Style Citation Generator

Welcome to the Citation Generator Game!

This game will guide you through creating a fake academic citation in the style that AI models sometimes generate when they don't have access to real sources.

You'll be asked to provide various inputs that will be combined into a citation format.

How to Play

This game helps you understand how AI can mimic citations without using real sources. To play:

  1. Answer a series of fun prompts like names, movie titles, and keywords.
  2. Your responses will be combined into a fake but realistic-looking citation.
  3. Read your AI-style citation and notice how it "sounds right" even though it's made up.

Ready? Just start answering the questions — your citation builds as you go!

AI is a tin woodman in search of a heart

A black and white illustration of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "[The tin man.]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1904. NYPL Digital Collections.

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