A new study in The Lancet shows that the rate of fake citations increased more than 12x between Jan 2023 and Feb 2026.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext
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May 08, 2026
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org
I work for #OpenAccess to research. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. Also an emeritus professor of #philosophy and non-practicing #lawyer. Posting on open research, academic culture, US politics, democracy. Dad of daughters. For #OA news, also follow the Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp). I aim for comprehensive coverage there, not here.
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@hperrin@port87.social
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Mar 27, 2026
Hunter Perrin
@hperrin@port87.social
I run SciActive, Inc. and Port87. Port87 Mail is email with powerful organization and anti-spam features, https://port87.com I created Svelte Material UI, https://sveltematerialui.com I created Nymph.js, https://nymph.io I am an advocate for LGBTQ rights and leftist politics, https://twitch.tv/SylphWeed
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#AI #code often includes references to non-existent dependencies. These references are commonly called “#hallucinations”. A new type of #attack has arisen that involves an attacker registering a package whose name is frequently hallucinated. When AI code containing this #hallucination is accepted, and this dependency is installed, the attacker can ship #malicious code into the project’s build, introducing a major #security vulnerability. This type of attack has become known as “#slopsquatting”.
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Mar 14, 2026
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Technical Writer @ UJET.cx (Portugal). PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication researcher. #TechnicalWriting #WebDev #WebDevelopment #OpenSource #FLOSS #SoftwareDevelopment #IP #PoliticalEconomy #Communication #Media #Copyright #Music #Cities #Urbanism
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"Even worse was the suggestion by Grammarly’s A.I. version of me to replace the first sentence of the news article with an anecdotal opening describing a fictional person named Laura whose privacy had been violated.
“Laura, a patient searching for relief from a chronic condition, clicks through her hospital’s website to schedule an appointment. In just a few moments, her most private medical details — her reason for visiting, her doctor’s name and even the treatment she seeks — are quietly sent to Facebook, without her knowledge,” the bot suggested with a button allowing the user to paste that excerpt straight into the article.
Replacing a factual sentence with an imagined story about a person who doesn’t exist is not only bad editing. It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist (or the career of any journalist who took that terrible advice).
And this is the problem with A.I. It doesn’t know truth from fiction. It doesn’t know an investigative news article from an offhand comment. It flattens all content into word associations.
What Grammarly made wasn’t a doppelgänger. As the writer Ingrid Burrington wrote on Bluesky, it was a sloppelgänger — A.I. slop masquerading as a person.
And it must be stopped."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/ai-doppelganger-deepfake-grammarly.html
#AI #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Writing #Hallucinations
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