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Citing non-existent articles

2025-12-19 20:38:28.809301+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Bluesky thread from Ben Williamson, starting with reviewing a paper that referred to non- existent sources on which he was allegedly a co-author, and then becomes a look at how AI generated citations are polluting Google Scholar.

Via ‪Elf M. Sternberg‬ ‪@elfsternberg.bsky.social‬, who notes:

This is ridiculous. Consensual reality, the very idea that we inhabit an understandable universe where any beliefs we have in common are grounded in verifiable facts, is being destroyed before our very eyes.

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