Bruno J. Navarro on Nostr: Over the past three years, the rate of fabricated references in biomedical literature ...

Over the past three years, the rate of fabricated references in biomedical literature has grown more than 12-fold. In 2023, one in 2,828 papers contained at least one fake reference, a rate that had risen to one in 458 by last year. Over the first seven weeks of 2026, the researchers found, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference. https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/ai-hallucinations-infiltrating-expert-entering-090000090.html