Comment by abalone
20 hours ago
At least in one case the authors claimed to use ChatGPT to "generate the citations after giving it author-year in-text citations, titles, or their paraphrases." They pasted the hallucinations in without checking. They've since responded with corrections to real papers that in most cases are very similar to the hallucination, lending credibility to their claim.[1]
Not great, but to be clear this is different from fabricating the whole paper or the authors inventing the citations. (In this case at least.)
I counted 15 hallucinated citations. The authors explanation is plausible, but it is still 15 citations to works they clearly have not read. Any university teaches you that citing sources you personally have not verified supports you claim(s) is fraudulent. Apologizing is not enough, they should retract the article.