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Hallucinated Citations Polluting Scientific Literature
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
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"A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday admonished a pro se litigant for using AI-hallucinated case citations ... with the panel citing an AI-generated limerick to get its point across."[image or embed] -- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) Mar 26, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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Too bad that AI never went to grad school. Or college. Or high school.
Unskilled labor.
#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-07 07:35 PM | Reply
Years ago, a cultural historian reflected that Facebook was the modern Doomsday Machine.
That supposition has since been superseded.
AI recently informed me that Christopher Wray was the Director of the FBI.
#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-08 05:56 AM | Reply
Any scientist writing papers with AI is an idiot who should face consequences.
First off, there are major known issues and being this lazy is irresponsible.
Second, you publication list is your entire identity and capital bank for job applications, promotions, committees, speaking engagements ect. You're an absolute fool to trust anything but yourself to craft that.
#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-08 10:21 AM | Reply
Outsource peer review to a robot, what a fantastic idea /s
#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-04-08 11:38 AM | Reply
Same thing in law.
#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-08 04:24 PM | Reply
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