The Echo Chamber of Error: How AI Generated Hallucinations Are Polluting Expert Work A recent study published in The Lancet has revealed a disturbing trend: nearly 4,000 fabricated references have been buried across over 3,000 biomedical papers.
These "hallucinations" are a symptom of the growing presence of artificial intelligence in expert work, where tools are increasingly used to polish scientific papers and provide background research.
Researchers Maxim Topaz and his colleagues found that over the past three years, the rate of fabricated references in biomedical literature has grown by more than 12 fold.