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kottke.org on Nostr: A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably ...

A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably hallucinated by AI. The fake citations “were not limited to a handful of bad apples but appeared across many papers, each containing a small number of fake references.” https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ai-generated-fake-citations-scientific.html