#citations — Public Fediverse posts

Daniel N. let me know about his new site, the revamped CiteMe (https://citeme.app. ) CiteMe rang a bell so I asked him when it launched. He replied “The site originally launched in 2024 as a citation generator, built around a Chrome extension. I bought it in January 2026 and rebuilt it completely. The old version generated citations with a language model, which is exactly how fabricated […]

Daniel N. let me know about his new site, the revamped CiteMe (https://citeme.app. ) CiteMe rang a bell so I asked him when it launched. He replied “The site originally launched in 2024 as a citation generator, built around a Chrome extension. I bought it in January 2026 and rebuilt it completely. The old version generated citations with a language model, which is exactly how fabricated […]

When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence rates far exceed chance and are consistent across independent generations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02184

They fool people and tools:

"We identify 1,655 ghost-authored records claiming nonexistent journals with fabricated publication dates…Server-side #DataCite timestamps prove deliberate backdating…These carry real #DOIs…making them harvestable by any scholarly aggregator that ingests DOI metadata."

#Citations #Hallucinations #ScholComm

When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence rates far exceed chance and are consistent across independent generations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02184

They fool people and tools:

"We identify 1,655 ghost-authored records claiming nonexistent journals with fabricated publication dates…Server-side #DataCite timestamps prove deliberate backdating…These carry real #DOIs…making them harvestable by any scholarly aggregator that ingests DOI metadata."

#Citations #Hallucinations #ScholComm

Get sources for every answer!

Ask your wiki a question and the AI Assistant answers from your content, citing the pages it drew from. Open the sources box, click through, and verify the information yourself.

Learn more at https://professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant

#MediaWiki #Wiki #KnowledgeManagement #Documentation #Citations @mediawiki

Get sources for every answer!

Ask your wiki a question and the AI Assistant answers from your content, citing the pages it drew from. Open the sources box, click through, and verify the information yourself.

Learn more at https://professional.wiki/en/mediawiki-ai-assistant

#MediaWiki #Wiki #KnowledgeManagement #Documentation #Citations @mediawiki

"The tell isn’t that fake citations look wrong. It’s that they look too right. Too convenient. Too perfectly aligned with whatever point the AI is making.

Real academic citations are messy. "

#Technology #AI #AIDetection #Citations #Librarians (rock)

https://www.llrx.com/2025/12/how-to-spot-ai-hallucinations-like-a-reference-librarian/

"The tell isn’t that fake citations look wrong. It’s that they look too right. Too convenient. Too perfectly aligned with whatever point the AI is making.

Real academic citations are messy. "

#Technology #AI #AIDetection #Citations #Librarians (rock)

https://www.llrx.com/2025/12/how-to-spot-ai-hallucinations-like-a-reference-librarian/

Techdirt: DOJ Now Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases To Keep ICE Detainees Locked Up. “You’d think that watching multiple lawyers get caught red-handed using AI to file briefs full of made-up citations would cause everyone in the legal profession — especially prosecutors — to double-check their own. You would, of course, be wrong. And the latest offender is not just some random lawyer. It’s […]

Techdirt: DOJ Now Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases To Keep ICE Detainees Locked Up. “You’d think that watching multiple lawyers get caught red-handed using AI to file briefs full of made-up citations would cause everyone in the legal profession — especially prosecutors — to double-check their own. You would, of course, be wrong. And the latest offender is not just some random lawyer. It’s […]

Search Engine Journal: Google Is AI Mode’s No. 2 Cited Domain, Data Shows. “Google.com has become the second most-cited domain in Google’s AI Mode, according to a new report from Profound, an AI-visibility platform that sells tools for tracking brand presence in AI search. The report shows citation share for google.com rose 8.4x between April 15 and June 30, with almost all of that increase […]

Search Engine Journal: Google Is AI Mode’s No. 2 Cited Domain, Data Shows. “Google.com has become the second most-cited domain in Google’s AI Mode, according to a new report from Profound, an AI-visibility platform that sells tools for tracking brand presence in AI search. The report shows citation share for google.com rose 8.4x between April 15 and June 30, with almost all of that increase […]

From hallucination to verification www.pixelsandpatterns.org/p/from-halluci… #AI #citations #hallucination

From hallucination to verification www.pixelsandpatterns.org/p/from-halluci… #AI #citations #hallucination

Mediaite: Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Scolds DOJ for Including Fake AI-Generated Case in Pleading. “Attorneys with the Department of Justice were scolded by a federal judge in an order Thursday for using what appeared to be a fake AI-generated case citation.”

Mediaite: Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Scolds DOJ for Including Fake AI-Generated Case in Pleading. “Attorneys with the Department of Justice were scolded by a federal judge in an order Thursday for using what appeared to be a fake AI-generated case citation.”

🤖🎩 Ah yes, the #AI #Law #Tracker, because nothing screams #accessibility like 841 pages of #bureaucratic bedtime reading! Who knew #compliance could be this thrilling? 🥱📜 Meanwhile, we'll just sit back and let the AI write its own #citations. 🚓💡
https://ai-law-tracker.com #reading #HackerNews #ngated

🤖🎩 Ah yes, the #AI #Law #Tracker, because nothing screams #accessibility like 841 pages of #bureaucratic bedtime reading! Who knew #compliance could be this thrilling? 🥱📜 Meanwhile, we'll just sit back and let the AI write its own #citations. 🚓💡
https://ai-law-tracker.com #reading #HackerNews #ngated

Fedi biblio, ESR et scholar, j'ai besoin de ton aide.

Connais-tu des ressources pour savoir comment citer des ouvrages sous formats numériques ? Je veux parler ici des citations en note de bas de page, et des normes qui y sont appliquées.

Je connais des normes, mais elles s'appliquent pour des ouvrages papiers. Mais quand il s'agit de déterminer le numéro de page d'un epub ou pdf, c'est un peu plus compliqué...

Merci Fedi 🙏

#help #biblio #citations #formats #epub

⚙️ Did you know that citeproc-php is under new management?

The #PHP library that renders article #citations in #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) has changed maintenance hands from the library’s creator, Sebastian Böttger, to PKP.

Learn what citeproc-php is, what has changed, and what this means for OJS users, developers, and broader audiences.

Visit PKP's News Blog at https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/04/16/citeproc-php-is-now-managed-by-pkp/

⚙️ Did you know that citeproc-php is under new management?

The #PHP library that renders article #citations in #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) has changed maintenance hands from the library’s creator, Sebastian Böttger, to PKP.

Learn what citeproc-php is, what has changed, and what this means for OJS users, developers, and broader audiences.

Visit PKP's News Blog at https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/04/16/citeproc-php-is-now-managed-by-pkp/

"Quand tout le monde ment sur tout ce qui est important, le diseur de vérité, qu'il le sache ou non, a commencé à agir ; lui aussi s'est engagé dans les affaires politiques ; car, dans le cas peu probable où il survivrait, il a fait un pas pour changer le monde."

Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"

#vérité #réalité #postFactuel #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #valeurs

"Quand tout le monde ment sur tout ce qui est important, le diseur de vérité, qu'il le sache ou non, a commencé à agir ; lui aussi s'est engagé dans les affaires politiques ; car, dans le cas peu probable où il survivrait, il a fait un pas pour changer le monde."

Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"

#vérité #réalité #postFactuel #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #valeurs

«...Обугленный свиток № 172 попал в оксфордскую Бодлианскую библиотеку как подарок короля Неаполя будущему британскому королю Георгу IV — в обмен на партию кенгуру, отправленную в Неаполь...» https://artguide.com/news/10739 🧷 https://meduza.io/feature/2026/07/12/issledovateli-vpervye-polnostyu-rasshifrovali-obuglennyy-svitok-villy-papirusov-krupneyshey-antichnoy-biblioteki #citations #library #Herculaneum #VesuviusChallenge #VillaofthePapyri #Herculaneumpapyri #PHerc #charredscrolls

«...Обугленный свиток № 172 попал в оксфордскую Бодлианскую библиотеку как подарок короля Неаполя будущему британскому королю Георгу IV — в обмен на партию кенгуру, отправленную в Неаполь...» https://artguide.com/news/10739 🧷 https://meduza.io/feature/2026/07/12/issledovateli-vpervye-polnostyu-rasshifrovali-obuglennyy-svitok-villy-papirusov-krupneyshey-antichnoy-biblioteki #citations #library #Herculaneum #VesuviusChallenge #VillaofthePapyri #Herculaneumpapyri #PHerc #charredscrolls

#citations #quotes #nature #music 🤗
#goodmorning

#citations #quotes #nature #music 🤗
#goodmorning

Reuters: US appeals court rebukes lawyer over ‘fake and hallucinated’ case citations. “A U.S. appeals court on Friday rebuked a Florida lawyer and ​county official for filing briefs riddled with what it called ‘fake and hallucinated’ material generated by ‌artificial intelligence and issued a broad warning against outsourcing legal work carelessly to AI.”

Reuters: US appeals court rebukes lawyer over ‘fake and hallucinated’ case citations. “A U.S. appeals court on Friday rebuked a Florida lawyer and ​county official for filing briefs riddled with what it called ‘fake and hallucinated’ material generated by ‌artificial intelligence and issued a broad warning against outsourcing legal work carelessly to AI.”

Sacramento fire officials issue $100K illegal fireworks citation

As Sacramento fire officials continue to work through il…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #citations #crew #delpasoheights #delpasoheightshome #department #Drone #fine #fire #fourth #FourthofJuly #Headlines #illegalfireworks #julyseason #JustinSylvia #killegalfireworkcitation #night #number #people #sacramentocountysheriff'soffice #sacramentofiredepartment #sacramentofireofficial #TopStories #year
https://www.newsbeep.com/632166/

New study: Articles from #PaperMills can get "50 to 100% more #citations than other papers" even with fewer downloads. One cause for the extra citations is mutual citation by the same papers.

Primary source (preprint)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Summary in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Suspected distortion of citati...

"Thinking begins where certainty end."
(Hanna Arendt)

#Quotes #Citations #HannahArendt #Philosophy #Doubt

"Thinking begins where certainty end."
(Hanna Arendt)

#Quotes #Citations #HannahArendt #Philosophy #Doubt

Retraction Watch: Major citation index put surgery journals on hold following Retraction Watch investigation. “The move came just a week after our investigation, published March 12, which found mandatory citation of reporting guidelines in the International Journal of Surgery (IJS) had inflated the impact factor of the open-access title, making it more attractive to authors and readers. The […]

Retraction Watch: Major citation index put surgery journals on hold following Retraction Watch investigation. “The move came just a week after our investigation, published March 12, which found mandatory citation of reporting guidelines in the International Journal of Surgery (IJS) had inflated the impact factor of the open-access title, making it more attractive to authors and readers. The […]

Bibliography interoperability is mostly a mirage.
There is no shared canonical model for bibliographic data: BibTeX, CSL-JSON, CFF, RIS, and others encode overlapping but incompatible views of the same reality.
Every converter is just a heuristic translator. We’ve optimized tools, not the model itself. Every ecosystem re-implements the same edge cases, calls it innovation, and ships the same mistakes again.

#citations #bibtex #biblatex #csl #zotero #citeproc #pandoc

Bibliography interoperability is mostly a mirage.
There is no shared canonical model for bibliographic data: BibTeX, CSL-JSON, CFF, RIS, and others encode overlapping but incompatible views of the same reality.
Every converter is just a heuristic translator. We’ve optimized tools, not the model itself. Every ecosystem re-implements the same edge cases, calls it innovation, and ships the same mistakes again.

#citations #bibtex #biblatex #csl #zotero #citeproc #pandoc

arXiv tightens policy on hallucinated references: what researchers should know about using AI search engines | Singapore Management University (SMU) - Aaron Tay library.smu.edu.sg/topics-insight… #AI #search #citations

arXiv tightens policy on hallucinated references: what researchers should know about using AI search engines | Singapore Management University (SMU) - Aaron Tay library.smu.edu.sg/topics-insight… #AI #search #citations

It's been over a year since I have known about this. Anything that an LLM blurts out is not fact or truth, in fact, it's often a hallucination.

Doing scientific (or any) research with AI puts you in the risk of presenting your final report with non-existent citations, which AIs are notorious for.

https://westreich.substack.com/p/why-chatgpt-creates-scientific-citations

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Science #Research #Citations

It's been over a year since I have known about this. Anything that an LLM blurts out is not fact or truth, in fact, it's often a hallucination.

Doing scientific (or any) research with AI puts you in the risk of presenting your final report with non-existent citations, which AIs are notorious for.

https://westreich.substack.com/p/why-chatgpt-creates-scientific-citations

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Science #Research #Citations

Mississippi Free Press: AI Hallucinations Prompt Mississippi Judge to Boot All Lawyers From Case for ‘Blindly Relying on Technology’. “A federal judge in Mississippi booted all lawyers from a case on Tuesday after finding that counsel on both sides had used generative AI to draft legal filings and left hallucinated sources in the legal record.”

Mississippi Free Press: AI Hallucinations Prompt Mississippi Judge to Boot All Lawyers From Case for ‘Blindly Relying on Technology’. “A federal judge in Mississippi booted all lawyers from a case on Tuesday after finding that counsel on both sides had used generative AI to draft legal filings and left hallucinated sources in the legal record.”

Another reason to distrust journal-based citation metrics: "Suspected #papermill articles…cited – and were cited by – other suspected paper mill articles…The resulting citations…measurably inflated journal citation metrics." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Citations #JIF #ScholComm

Another reason to distrust journal-based citation metrics: "Suspected #papermill articles…cited – and were cited by – other suspected paper mill articles…The resulting citations…measurably inflated journal citation metrics." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Citations #JIF #ScholComm

Another reason to distrust journal-based citation metrics:

"Suspected #papermill articles…cited – and were cited by – other suspected paper mill articles and appeared in journals previously reported as paper mill targets. The resulting citations from suspected paper mill articles measurably inflated journal citation metrics."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1

#Citations #JIF #ScholComm

Another reason to distrust journal-based citation metrics:

"Suspected #papermill articles…cited – and were cited by – other suspected paper mill articles and appeared in journals previously reported as paper mill targets. The resulting citations from suspected paper mill articles measurably inflated journal citation metrics."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1

#Citations #JIF #ScholComm

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
_____

"L'individu idéal d'un régime totalitaire n'est pas le nazi convaincu ou le communiste convaincu, mais ceux pour qui la distinction entre la réalité et la fiction, entre le vrai et le faux, n'existent plus.

(Hannah ARENDT)
"tHE ORIGIN OF TOTALITARISM"

#Dictature #Quotes #Citations #Totalitarisme #MAGA #War #Guerre #IA #AI #Obey

Iowa Capital Dispatch: Attorney reprimanded for AI-fabricated information in court filing. “It’s at least the second time an Iowa attorney has faced allegations of using artificial intelligence, or AI, to author briefs that include false information, often referred to as ‘hallucinations’ since the information is created by AI based on data patterns rather than on verified facts.”

CITP Blog: Can AI reduce burdens on courts by automatically verifying citations?. “Fabricated case citations generated by AI are appearing in court filings at an accelerating rate. Combined with other tracking efforts, we have identified over 1,000 filings containing hallucinated citations from self-represented (pro se) litigants and lawyers alike.”