Springer Nature flags paper with fabricated reference to article (not) written

Springer Nature flagged a paper containing a fabricated AI-hallucinated

AI-Reddit study leader gets warning as ethics committee moves to ‘stricter

A formal warning was issued to the lead researcher behind a controversial

Springer Nature flags paper with fabricated reference to article (not) written by our cofounder

Springer Nature flagged a paper containing an AI-hallucinated citation falsely attributed to a Retraction Watch cofounder, part of a dramatic increase in fake reference reports.

AI unreliable in identifying retracted research papers, says study

A study of 21 LLMs finds they are inconsistent and unreliable at identifying retracted research papers, producing contradictory results on identical prompts.

Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts

The World Conference on Research Integrity — focused on AI risks — was itself flooded with AI-generated abstract submissions in an ironic echo of the problem it seeks to study.

AI-Reddit study leader gets warning as ethics committee moves to 'stricter review process'

A University of Zurich AI study that covertly deployed LLM-generated posts on Reddit without informed consent drew a formal ethics committee warning and triggered a stricter review process for future AI research.