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So the time has come, VerusCite is a fully functional site and ready to release to the public.
Hallucinations in peer review research are a current major problem. It signals a grave lack of care by researchers, and should trigger subsequently more scrutiny of the claims therein.
But even in articles that researchers clearly use genAI tools to write whole cloth, the majority of the citations are correct.
VerusCite only takes about 2~3 minutes to extract and verify those citations in an academic paper.
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One of the recent AI hallucinations I have come across is DOIs that point to totally different papers. I honestly don't know if these are author or editor induced.
If editor, it just means the journals are publishing papers that *they know* have a pretty gross amount of errors.
Can see this report at veruscite.com/share/a2NXY4aV…, 16 hallucinations that point to DOIs to other papers (and the papers as cited do not exist).
Hall of Hallucinations is up to 142 papers. Sign up, contribute a few of your own.
veruscite.com/hallucinations
New VerusCite blog post, my false positive rate is under 1% in my benchmark and likely outside of it.
I go through my Grok Bot scan yesterday to show an out of sample example. Of the 200+ citations scanned, my tool flagged 10. Only one is potentially a false positive.
Can see the post at veruscite.com/blog/veruscite…
I suggests a human review after my tool has flagged. Which is of course is so much faster than going through citations yourself one by one.
There are some legacy systems that are terrifying and I have no clue how they still manage to function (e.g. email). I am going to add 811 to that list.
Got an email from North Carolina that has a parcel map that is at least over 10+ years old.
It does work fast and gets the various companies out, but gosh that must be a tangled web to work on as a developer. (And the utilities must drop a significant amount of labor cost for something that should not be that hard.)
Abigail Haddad has a good blog post in response to the Glock piece on DOGE that I recommend folks read. Unlike private sector, it is hard to measure "how effective the gov is".
And she is pretty skeptical of Glock's claim that it is just as effective even after the exodus.
presentofcoding.substack.com…
PILLAGE! Is Not a Management Strategy
DOGE, curiosity, and lost opportunities by Abigail Haddad
Not what Jukka meant, but there are actually more objective measures of quality in theatre that have no analog in Sociology -- like ticket sales and external reviews.
I used to build sets while in undergrad, so cost/time/ease to move are pretty objective for the carpenters as well.
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Scientific Reports, what is intended to the be the open access journal analogue of Nature (and charges not quite $3k for open access), currently has 3 articles in the Hall of Hallucination.
Folks should be demanding more rigor from these journals, veruscite.com/hallucinations…, especially when paying $3k.
Junk like this spoils it for the folks publishing good work.
