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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? (www.nature.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/science@lemmy.world

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

Sp you are unaware that wikipedia ALSO has sources