Valnao@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoHallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?www.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?www.nature.comValnao@sh.itjust.works to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWikipedia 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.
minus-squareZexks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoSp you are unaware that wikipedia ALSO has sources
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.
Sp you are unaware that wikipedia ALSO has sources