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Trevor Nichols @ BetaKit 3 place · 12/16/2025 06:05 EDT

Startup investigation reveals 50 peer-reviewed papers contained hallucinated citations

GPTZero found “obvious” instances of false, LLM-generated references in academic papers.

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