An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic ...

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

Some AI-assisted research papers are citing studies that do not exist, revealing how reference errors can slip through peer review.

Even top AI and machine learning conferences, including NeurIPS, are grappling with the menace of fake, AI-hallucinated ...

It is perhaps poetic justice that AI and ML conferences too are being forced to grapple with AI-generated slop papers.

GPTZero's analysis scrutinized all 4,841 papers presented at NeurIPS, identifying 100 confirmed hallucinated citations across 51 different papers. While this may seem alarming, it is crucial to ...

The way GenAI surfaces sources for literature reviews risks exacerbating the citation Matthew effect, writes David Joyner.

As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, ...

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world's most reputable economics journals to study ...