Hacker NewsDec 7

At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions

https://gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026/

#HackerNews #hallucinatedcitations #ICLR2026 #AIethics #researchintegrity #academicpublishing #machinelearning

GPTZero uncovers 50+ Hallucinations in ICLR 2026

GPTZero used our Citation Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.

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eicker.news ᳇ tech newsNov 30
A major #AIconference, the International Conference on Learning Representations (#ICLR), discovered that 21% of #peerreviews were fully #AIgenerated. #Researchers raised concerns about AI-generated #reviews, citing issues like #hallucinatedcitations and #vaguefeedback. Organisers will now use automated tools to assess submissions and reviews for AI use. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI

Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.