citation integrity

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...

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...