RISK OF MISINFORMATION IN THE USE OF LLM BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by university students, specifically large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT, this has led to a discussion about the ethics of using these models, especially when it comes to solving assignments and school projects.One point that is often overlooked is the misinformation these models can generate if not used properly, since students can trust the results, they get without verifying it.For this research we aimed to understand how university students use LLM and how they interpret the results they get.We designed a short questionnaire that was sent online to students in the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, in Mexico, results were anonymous in order to encourage truthful responses.The responses show that a lot of students are using LLMs to search for information, many times over search engines, and that even though they might detect some mistakes, theres a lack of awareness on the risk of misinformation.