Valnao@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoHallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?www.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down11
arrow-up160arrow-down1external-linkHallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?www.nature.comValnao@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·6 days agoWikipedia is not a primary source. They have an explicit rule against original research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research So it’s in the same class as your own papers. Citing it directly is regurgitation. The more this happens, the worse the quality gets. Same as saving and resaving a jpeg, or when AI gets trained on AI slop.
minus-squareZexks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·6 days agoSp you are unaware that wikipedia ALSO has sources
Wikipedia is not a primary source. They have an explicit rule against original research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
So it’s in the same class as your own papers. Citing it directly is regurgitation. The more this happens, the worse the quality gets. Same as saving and resaving a jpeg, or when AI gets trained on AI slop.
Sp you are unaware that wikipedia ALSO has sources