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Lazy authors of research papers thinking they need 10 more citations will always be a thing.

Posted by voiceofreason

on May 15, 2026, 7:23:48, in reply to "Hallucinated citations becoming more and more common in scholarly papers - Lancet"

Edited by voiceofreason on May 15, 2026, 7:26:32

Instead of citing papers that they haven’t really read, they are now fabricated by AI.

How do these journals not have AI trained with every publication in existence to easily cross reference any paper cited to see if it is real? This seems like a good, low hanging fruit use of AI. Particularly since we have sources like PubMed with these lists already.

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Which ones is a bubble and when does it pop?

- doubledown May 14, 2026, 19:50:14 [poll]

Looks like GitHub users are going to have to pay their actual cost for CoPilot - ATL Yesterday, 19:45:28
- One developer posted this - ATL Yesterday, 19:48:51
Hallucinated citations becoming more and more common in scholarly papers - Lancet - ATL May 14, 2026, 22:37:27
- Lazy authors of research papers thinking they need 10 more citations will always be a thing. - voiceofreason May 15, 2026, 7:23:48
- A lot of that could be a skill issue and tooling. Reasoning models hallucinate a lot, so - doubledown May 15, 2026, 7:09:45
Here’s a sign that AI might be an overhyped bubble - ATL May 14, 2026, 20:46:17
- Might as well take a stack of $100 bills and light them on fire - jfinsocal May 15, 2026, 8:34:36
- Open AI - memyselfandillini May 14, 2026, 22:06:07

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