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When Footnotes Start Lying

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Created December 22, 2025

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AI is literally making up academic papers — fake authors, fake journals, fake citations.

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Teachers caught it first in student essays, but now it’s showing up in real,

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peer-reviewed research. And here’s the scary part: once a fake citation gets published, other papers start

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citing it… and boom — a completely fake source suddenly looks legit. So yeah.

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The footnotes are lying now.

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