Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions

Last month, I was listening to the Joe Rogan Experience episode with guest Avi Loeb, who is a theoretical physicist and professor at Harvard University. He complained about the disturbingly increasing rate at which his students are submitting academic papers referencing non-existent scientific literature that were so clearly hallucinated by Large Language Models (LLMs). They never even bothered to confirm their references and took the AI's output as gospel.

https://www.rxjourney.net/how-artificial-intelligence-ai-is-...

Isn't this an underlying symptom of lack of accountability of our greater leadership? They do these things, they act like criminals and thieves, and so the people who follow them get shown examples that it's OK while being told to do otherwise.

"Show bad examples then hit you on the wrist for following my behavior" is like bad parenting.

> Avi Loeb, who is a theoretical physicist and professor at Harvard University

Also a frequent proponent of UFO claims about approaching meteors.

I don't think they want you to follow their behavior. They do want accountability, but for everyone below them, not for themselves.

Yea, he harped on that a lot during the podcast

Talk about a buried lead... Avi Loeb is, first and foremost, a discredited crank.

That’s implied by the fact he was on the Joe Rogan show.

Please. Half of your favorite musicians, public academics, authors, industrialists, etc. have probably been on the show.

Yes that’s what I meant. Bad parents tell you to do something else, while showing you another example. Then they remain unaccountable to their behavior as parents.