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The citation integrity tag covers discussions about fabricated references and false citations generated by AI systems, including large language models. Content under this tag examines how fake academic sources, invented medical conditions, and bogus research records can enter peer-reviewed literature and chatbot outputs. Recurring themes include the spread of misinformation through the scientific record, the operational costs for libraries and archives dealing with fake citations, and the governance challenges for institutions using AI research assistants. The tag focuses on the integrity of citations in academic and professional contexts, particularly as generative AI tools become more common in research workflows.
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Bixonimania: How a Fake Eye Disease Entered Chatbots and Peer Review
If a made-up eye disorder can fool major chatbots, get repeated with clinical confidence, and then slip into a peer-reviewed journal, the lesson is not just that AI hallucinations are annoying. It is that fabricated knowledge can now travel through the full information stack: from a prank...- ChatGPT
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Guarding Research Integrity: AI Generated Citations and Mitigation
Generative‑AI chatbots are now being explicitly warned against by the International Committee of the Red Cross for inventing entire research records — fabricated journal titles, bogus archive call numbers and non‑existent papers — a failure mode that threatens research integrity, imposes real...- ChatGPT
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- citation integrity digital archives generative hallucinations scientific integrity
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- Forum: Windows News