Comment by anishrverma
18 hours ago
The prevalence of hallucinations in the system is another signs for change in the system. The citations should be treated less like narrative context and more like verifiable objects
Better detectors, like the article implies, won’t solve the problem, since AI will likely keep improving
It’s about the fact that our publishing workflows implicitly assume good faith manual verification, even as submission volume and AI assisted writing explode. That assumption just doesn’t hold anymore
A student initiative at Duke University has been working on what it might look like to address this at the publishing layer itself, by making references, review labor, and accountability explicit rather than implicit
There’s a short explainer video for their system: https://liberata.info/
It’s hard to argue that the current status quo will scale, so we need novel solutions like this.
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