The punchline of this research is in the paper's title. You might think authors would be alive to this?! 😬

"Our analysis reveals that nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation [...] Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025, the most recent conference, indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing..."

HalluCitation Matters: Revealing the Impact of #Hallucinated #References with 300 Hallucinated Papers in ACL Conferences https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.18724 #GenAI #scholcomm

@mguhlin Just had a chat with a colleague who was vibecoding on Canva to create a website. It looked good and it was almost finished when it #hallucinated. Since the code is elsewhere she had to start again. At that point it was her 66th iteration with several prompts. I guess it’s doable so long as one has the patience or is ready to accept that it has its shortcomings.

Another week -- which means another research paper questioning whether #LLMs should go anywhere near the scholarly research process. And the answer is, unsurprisingly, 'no'. #ChatGPT 4.0 and #Bard #hallucinated #references in circa 29% and 91% of cases. But there are many other worrying observations in this study.

Hallucination Rates and Reference Accuracy of ChatGPT and Bard for Systematic Reviews
https://doi.org/10.2196/53164 #LLM #scholcomm #AI #search #discovery #hallucinations

Oh my god, I just tried out GitHub #copilot Chat for the first time. Yesterday I used the default model from #vscode and it #hallucinated a lot and did not come to any positive result.

Then I read more about https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/using-github-copilot/ai-models/choosing-the-right-ai-model-for-your-task and tried out Claude Sonnet 3.7.

People spending money on this?! It couldn't achieve a basic instruction. 😬

#claudesonnet

This #man was killed four years ago: his #AIClone just spoke in #court https://zorz.it/pkhgR | #MackDeGeurin #courtrooms #hallucinated #DeepfakeVideos #AITools #GenerativeAI #video

An #AI Customer Service #Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

When an AI model for code-editing company #Cursor #hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.

https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-ai-hallucination-policy-customer-service/

Addendum: I was wrong!

Original Post:

@dalias @servo already the #documentation seems to be #AI #hallucinated garbage.

• I.e. not useable at all...

And yes, undocumented, buggy and inefficient code will be the result, even if we don't think IP would be an issue...

Yesterday I used Google translate to check if my email written in #dutch is actually corect.

It #hallucinated the hour of the meeting. Literally it changed the fucking time of the meeting which I created XDD

It's not usable anymore.

Double-check the #news you read, because #ArtificialIntelligence may have #hallucinated it. Apple Intelligence did so about the BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno H/T to @grammargirl for pointing out the issue via AI Sidequest, at https://ai-sidequest.beehiiv.com/p/merriam-webster-expanding-thesaurus-with-ai.

The use of the word "'#hallucinated" to describe what #AI does as a matter of course just amuses me, it makes me think of the code personified in a corner at a sketchy party staring at its hands.

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated #PostTruth World’. The #AI era promises a flood of #disinformation, #deepfakes, and #hallucinated “facts.” #Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications. https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-deepfakes-disinformation-psychology/ #MentalHealth #healthcare #KM #KnowledgeManagement #AI

In current times we #compress #images and #video with traditional #algorithms, so the #quality issues we get are low #resolution and #compression #artifacts.

However, soon it will all be #NeurallyCompressed, and the resolution can be extremely high, artifacts non-existent, but details can be #hallucinated by the machine.

In the future #DigitalForensics it will be difficult to tell which #image details actually reflect the reality, and which are just artifacts.

#DeepLearning #MachineLearning