[doodlesdev]

Honestly, hallucinated references should simply get the submitter banned from ever applying again. Anyone submitting papers or anything with hallucinated references shall be publicly shamed. The problem isn't only the LLMs hallucinating, it's lazy and immoral humans who don't bother to check the output either, wasting everyone's time and corroding public trust in science and research.

[lionkor]

I fully agree. Not reading your own references should be grounds for banning, but that's impossible to check. Hallucinated references cannot be read, so by definition,they should get people banned.

[fuzzfactor]

>Not reading your own references

This could be considered in degrees.

Like when you only need a single table from another researcher's 25-page publication, you would cite it to be thorough but it wouldn't be so bad if you didn't even read very much of their other text. Perhaps not any at all.

Maybe one of the very helpful things is not just reading every reference in detail, but actually looking up every one in detail to begin with?