Quantifying the explosion of fake AI citations in the research literature--146,932 BS cites in papers from 2025 alone. Depressingly but unsurprisingly, social-science work had the most fake citations.
Write-up of these results in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
