Comment by bjourne
17 days ago
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.
What makes you say they "clearly have not read" their citations? Are you assuming that because they used ChatGPT to generate the citation section based on their description of the papers that they haven't read the papers? Are you suggesting that their clarifications of which real papers the ChatGPT citations were meant to map to are fake, and if so which ones?