Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site

Analyses of research repositories are estimating the rates of hallucinated citations in research papers. Credit: patpitchaya/iStock via Getty The problem of artificial intelligence models ‘hallucinating’ non-existent citations has recently shot to prominence . Now a team of researchers has sifted through 2.5 million papers and preprints to provide the best assessment of their prevalence yet. …