Citations are the easy check: researcher warns how much AI-written science is fabricated but unverifiable
jonc101x · x · 2026-11-02
In a thread discussing the CITADEL fabricated-citation audits, jonc101x argues that academic incentives naturally push researchers to pump out AI-generated slop as fast as possible. His key point: fabricated citations are merely the easiest fabrication to verify — how much of the actual manuscripts and results is made up but not easily checked remains the deeper, unmeasured problem in AI-era scholarly publishing.
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