Provenance record

AI-hallucinated citations should be treated as research misconduct

Nature (tier 1, academic) 2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z Original ↗

Discourse valence

-50

Adverse

confidence 80% · 1 item

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Adverse readingFavourable reading

Single-model reading. This item did not meet the threshold for a multi-model panel.

Governance and regulation Synthetic media and manipulation Scientific acceleration

Excerpt as ingested

Nature, Published online: 27 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03407-2 AI-hallucinated citations should be treated as research misconduct

Every model that read this

Model	Provider	Stage	Score	Conf.	Latency	Prompt	When
Llama 3.3 70B	Meta	analysis	-50	80%	3104ms	v1.0.0 / m1.0.1	2026-10-27 12:17

Llama 3.3 70B · reading

AI-generated false citations undermine research integrity.

evidence: reported horizon: n/a

Evidence extracted

AI can generate false citations
False citations should be treated as research misconduct

The chain

SOURCE     Nature (tier 1)
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DOCUMENT   1aef473e-e7b0-4cf5-9a71-ced01bcaa8da
           https://nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03407-2
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EVIDENCE   2 extracted excerpts
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MODEL RUN  1 run, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      -50  (Adverse)
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CONFIDENCE 80%