Science, now with 110,000 made-up sources!

When the citations are fiction, the science built on top of them isn’t far behind.

Turns out the problem with AI in science isn’t just that it occasionally gets things wrong, it’s that AI confidently invents sources that don’t exist, and those fake citations are showing up in real, peer-reviewed research by the tens of thousands.

Over the past year, efforts have begun turning up such hallucinated citations in the literature. One analys…