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AI hallucinations create correlated author ensembles for fake citations

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Researchers have found that when AI language models hallucinate citations, the fabricated author names are not random. Instead, these models generate correlated ensembles of co-authors whose co-occurrence rates are higher than chance and consistent across generations. These fabricated records, which include non-existent journals and backdated publication dates, are assigned real DOIs, allowing them to be ingested by scholarly aggregators. AI

IMPACT Reveals systematic patterns in AI-generated fake citations, potentially impacting scholarly integrity and AI detection methods.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes findings from a research paper about AI hallucination patterns. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI hallucinations create correlated author ensembles for fake citations

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    When # AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that # LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual name

    When # AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that # LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose …

    LINKS arxiv.org/…/2606.02184

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