[SpicyLemonZest]

The hallucinations here (https://gptzero.me/news/investigations-kpmg/) would have passed a cursory reference check. It's easy to see when it's laid out in a table that "BNP Paribas. AI Integration: Transforming Financial Journeys. The Banking Scene, 2025." is a false citation, because the title doesn't quite match and it wrongly attributes BNP Paribas authorship to an article written about BNP Paribas by some random Belgian guy doing business as "The Banking Scene". It'd be a lot harder to see when you're skimming through browser tab 9 of 45 and see all the key words match up.

[e12e]

I'm not talking about a reference check by someone other than the author. You'd not put a reference in in the first place, that you hadn't read, since you couldn't formulate the text that relates to the reference?

Ed: thanks for the link - I hadn't seen that yet.