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Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions

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504 points puttycat | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 13:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.195s | source
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ulrashida ◴[07 Dec 25 16:12 UTC] No.46182750[source]▶
Unfortunately while catching false citations is useful, in my experience that's not usually the problem affecting paper quality. Far more prevalent are authors who mis-cite materials, either drawing support from citations that don't actually say those things or strip the nuance away by using cherry picked quotes simply because that is what Google Scholar suggested as a top result.

The time it takes to find these errors is orders of magnitude higher than checking if a citation exists as you need to both read and understand the source material.

These bad actors should be subject to a three strikes rule: the steady corrosion of knowledge is not an accident by these individuals.

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1. lijenjin ◴[08 Dec 25 03:12 UTC] No.46187887[source]▶
The linked article at the end says: "First, using Hallucination Check together with GPTZero’s AI Detector allows users to check for AI-generated text and suspicious citations at the same time, and even use one result to verify the other. Second, Hallucination Check greatly reduces the time and labor necessary to verify a document’s sources by identifying flawed citations for a human to review."

On their site (https://gptzero.me/sources) it also says "GPTZero's Hallucination Detector automatically detects hallucinated sources and poorly supported claims in essays. Verify academic integrity with the most accurate hallucination detection tool for educators", so it does more than just identify invalid citations. Seems to do exactly what you're talking about.