Mastodawn

Randomly quoting Ray Bradbury did not save lawyer from losing case over AI errors https://arstechni.ca/eHZa #ArtificialIntelligence #hallucinations #fakecitations #Policy #AI

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.

Ars Technica

Regina Kammer Jan 12

I don't get how someone writes a “'thoroughly researched' white paper" and hands it off when they actually did no research at all? Who are these people?

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian
The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy.
https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/how-to-spot-ai-hallucinations-like
#Librarians #Research #AI #FakeCitations #Citations #FakeAcademics [maybe FakeAdemics?] #WikipediaNowRules #Verification #FactChecking

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian

The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy.

Card Catalog

Adrian Segar Sep 30, 2025

Lawyers' rampant use of LLMs for legal briefs is introducing fake citations or fake evidence that is "bogging down courts all over America".

https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

#law #LLM #AI #FakeCitations #FakeEvidence #lawyers

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 11, 2025

NiemanLab: AI search engines fail to produce accurate citations in over 60% of tests, according to new Tow Center study. “Last summer, I reported that ChatGPT frequently hallucinated fake URLs to news sites, even to articles from OpenAI’s own publishing partners. Research has continued to show that these citation issues are not limited to ChatGPT, but are in fact chronic across the AI […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/11/niemanlab-ai-search-engines-fail-to-produce-accurate-citations-in-over-60-of-tests-according-to-new-tow-center-study/

petersuber Jan 8, 2025

More evidence catching #publishers at gaming their journal impact factor (#JIF).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03771

"Sneaked references are references registered in the metadata of publications without being listed in reference section or in the full text of the actual publications where they ought to be found. We document here 80,205 references sneaked in metadata of the International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (#IJISRT). These sneaked references are registered with Crossref and all cite -- thus benefit -- this same journal."

#FakeCitations #Misconduct #ScholComm

Detection of metadata manipulations: Finding sneaked references in the scholarly literature

We report evidence of a new set of sneaked references discovered in the scientific literature. Sneaked references are references registered in the metadata of publications without being listed in reference section or in the full text of the actual publications where they ought to be found. We document here 80,205 references sneaked in metadata of the International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT). These sneaked references are registered with Crossref and all cite -- thus benefit -- this same journal. Using this dataset, we evaluate three different methods to automatically identify sneaked references. These methods compare reference lists registered with Crossref against the full text or the reference lists extracted from PDF files. In addition, we report attempts to scale the search for sneaked references to the scholarly literature.

arXiv.org