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5 days agoSurge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers
Nearly 3,000 biomedical papers contain fake references, with fabricated citations rising sharply from 2023 to 2025.
Artificial intelligence has, in turn, delivered the AI hallucination. Lawyers do it, judges do it, our clients do it. When Mata v. Avianca came down - the ur text of lawyer AI hallucination screw ups - we defended the technology against critics, stressing that the problem in this case remained fundamentally human. It shouldn't matter where the fake cite comes from... lawyers have an obligation to check their filings for accuracy.