i don’t think it’s emphasized enough that AI isn’t just making up bogus citations with nonexistent books and articles, but increasingly actual articles and other sources are completely AI generated too. so a reference to a source might be “real,” but the source itself is complete AI slop bullshit

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/eemcs/scientific-study-exposes-publication-fraud-involving-widespread-use-of-ai

https://thecurrentga.org/2025/02/01/experts-fake-papers-fuel-corrupt-industry-slow-legitimate-medical-research/

the actual danger of it all should be apparent, especially in any field related to health science research

and of course these fake papers are then used to further train AI, causing factually wrong information to spread even more