Research
Fake AI citations in biomedical papers surge twelvefold since 2023
A new audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers found fabricated references have increased more than twelvefold since 2023. Researchers at Columbia University and other institutions published the study in The Lancet, linking the rise to widespread use of language models like ChatGPT. The fake citations are hard to detect and pose special risks because they appear frequently in review articles that inform clinical guidelines.
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