Machine learning book by Springer Nature contains fabricated citations

A newly published machine learning textbook by Springer Nature, titled "Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced," has been found to contain numerous fabricated citations. An investigation revealed that two-thirds of the checked citations were either non-existent or contained significant errors, with some researchers confirming they did not author the cited works. The publisher is currently investigating the matter, and the book's author has not confirmed whether an AI tool was used in its creation, though the nature of the errors is characteristic of LLM-generated content. AI

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