HUM-06 · Citation theater

Audit an LLM's citations on a humanities query; design a verification protocol students must follow.

One humanities query run through a school-approved LLM. Citation audit worksheet (exists? says that? page/DOI?). Verification protocol for class use. No invented papers in the student’s own bibliography.

Stopping at “the link is blue.” Reproducing hallucinated citations in the works cited. Declaring all AI citations fake from three examples without a protocol.

Audit table with outcomes; protocol one-pager; class FAQ; non-claim list about what hallucination rates the student did not estimate.

CT: fluent ≠ sourced. CR: protocol design. CO: peer re-audits two citations. CM: protocol page. CZ: future students who would have cited ghosts.

Librarian or humanities teacher stress-tests the protocol. School-supervised.

R1: one query domain. R2: audit reproducible. R3: human verification baseline. R4: sample limits. R5: protocol usable Monday. R6: student bibliography is clean.

(a) Hot take, no table. (b) Works cited includes the hallucinations.

Lane A immediately. No verified credit claim.