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Show HN: Large scale hallucinated citation problem in published literature
Hey, Nick Morley from Grounded AI here (<a href="https://groundedai.company/" rel="nofollow">https://groundedai.company/</a>)<p>We collaborated with Nature to study the extent of fake/frankenstein citations in scholarly literature (from top 5 publishers - Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Sage, Taylor & Francis)<p>We're estimating hundreds of thousands of papers affected in 2025 with hallucinated citation issues<p>As part of the work we analysed 20k papers generated with ChatGPT API to figure out which citation errors are characteristic of gen AI use and use that classify the errors we saw<p>The world's gone mad, publishing is in a nuts state, the training data is poisoned!
Grounded AI addresses a critical bottleneck in scientific integrity with high-level validation via a Nature collaboration. While the market is specialized and the technical challenge is an ongoing arms race, their data-driven approach to identifying 'frankenstein' citations positions them as a potential infrastructure layer for scholarly publishing.