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tengwar2yesterday at 9:46 PM6 repliesview on HN

It's not just AI, though. I did a doctorate in physics about 40 years back, and bad references were a problem back then.


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dualvariableyesterday at 11:02 PM

Doesn't matter if it is AI hallucinations or entirely human scientific fraud, the problem is the same, and the solution works fine for both cases.

If you can't validate that your bibliography is full of real articles, you shouldn't get published.

LLMs have just poured gasoline on the fire.

lucb1eyesterday at 10:43 PM

In what way? Surely something like the source not quite saying what was cited, or mixing up citations, rather than inventing them outright?

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wrsyesterday at 11:03 PM

"Bad", like, you literally just made them up? I hope that would have been a problem.

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noobermintoday at 12:48 AM

Which is why the angry replies on Twitter from AI hype accounts is so funny. You should get penalised for fake references and profanity in your submissions, even if you wrote your slop longhand. I don't know why anyone would have an issue with this policy.

add-sub-mul-divyesterday at 10:59 PM

Yes and ffs arrows kill people too but we don't bring that up every time we talk about what to do with guns.

asdffyesterday at 11:30 PM

Imagine how bad they are now then.