The Fake Science Crisis

Your textbooks might be citing papers that never existed. AI is literally making up academic

research. Fake authors, fake journals, fake citations, all formatted perfectly.

Teachers caught it when student essays cited papers that weren't real. They searched the

databases, but nothing showed up. But here is where it gets

bad. Fake AI citations are now appearing in real, peer-reviewed research.

The kind that gets published and the kind that gets trusted. Once a fake

citation is published, other researchers start citing it. Because they assume someone else already

checked the facts. So now papers cite papers invented by a chatbot hallucinating.