Publisher investigates Z-Library paper with fake citations
What happened
On October 24, TorrentFreak checked a peer-reviewed Z-Library paper in the New Review of Academic Librarianship and found it cited a TorrentFreak article that does not exist. At least 10 of the paper's 44 references could not be found. The authors disclosed using Consensus AI to screen literature and extract information, and ChatGPT to improve some wording. The publisher has opened an investigation, but it is not yet known whether AI produced the fake citations.
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- Hacker News front pageAI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist
TorrentFreak核查一篇关于 Z-Library 的同行评审论文，发现其引用了一篇不存在的本站文章，44 条参考文献中至少 10 条无法找到。论文发表于 New Review of Academic Librarianship，作者披露使用 Consensus AI 筛选文献、提取信息，并用 ChatGPT 改善部分文字，但尚不能确定虚假引用由 AI 生成。
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