Why AI makes up citations, and how to stop it
Language models write references from memory, so some of them never existed. What the studies measured, why retrieval alone falls short, and what works.
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Essays and guides on AI-native scientific research.
Language models write references from memory, so some of them never existed. What the studies measured, why retrieval alone falls short, and what works.
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What CORE's A* and CCF's A mean, who decides them, where the two lists disagree on the venues you publish in, and how to use a rank without misjudging a paper.
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A worked example in Claude Code: sweep top venues, follow citations, read full text, tabulate the methods, then check every sentence against its source.
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