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Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

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What Happened

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

Our Take

Look, NeurIPS hallucinating citations is peak irony—the conference that's *supposed* to have standards is drowning in the same slop everyone else is. If you can't trust citations at a top venue, what's the actual defense? The problem isn't that papers use AI; it's that peer review didn't catch it. Conferences need real review, not just post-publication audits. This is a systems failure, not a tool failure.

What To Do

If you're submitting research, triple-check citations manually—don't rely on LLM outputs or conference reviewers to catch this.

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