Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
- September 8, 2025
- Mark Steyvers, cognitive sciences, Nature, Sept. 8, 2025
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Artificial intelligence (AI) models are known to confidently conjure up fake citations. … OpenAI is making “small steps that are good, but I don’t think we’re anywhere near where we need to be”, says Mark Steyvers, a cognitive science and AI researcher at the University of California, Irvine. “It’s not frequent enough that GPT says ‘I don’t know’.”
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