ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds
"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."
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@bibliolater "Hallucinated" (I prefer the term non-anthropomorphic term BS-generated) citations are relatively benign. The real toxic sludge are the citations that in fact exists but have no substantive relation to the text they are supposed to back up. Impossible to spot without painstaking manual labor.
@DetersHenning It looks like that rather than assisting humans the system is adding to our collective workloads.
