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Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal
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the fact that following up about hallucinated references was met with a second list of hallucinated references is just insulting, imo.
surely needing to go through everything with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that a) a source hasn't been hallucinated and that b) cited sources actually say what is claimed, is more time-consuming than just doing the research & citations manually?
That point about it taking more time applies to a lot of things with AI it seems like. It's only fast when you can trust it, and for important things you can't trust it.