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# [Why language models invent academic citations that look real](https://crushsci.hashnode.dev/why-language-models-invent-academic-citations-that-look-real?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Ask a language model for a short literature review, or for "a few key papers," and you may get a list that looks professionally done: surnames, years, journal names, tidy titles. Then you search for o

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