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AI Tool Reveals 100 Hallucinated Citations in NeurIPS Papers

1/22/2026

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AI detection startup GPTZero analyzed 4,841 papers from NeurIPS 2025 and found 100 hallucinated citations across 51 papers, representing 1.1% of total citations.
NeurIPS stated that inaccurate citations do not invalidate the papers' content, while the conference received over 21,000 submissions in 2025.
GPTZero's tool, which claims over 99% accuracy, verifies citations against academic databases.
The findings underscore the risks associated with AI-generated content in scholarly work.

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Story summary

AI detection startup GPTZero analyzed 4,841 papers from NeurIPS 2025 and found 100 hallucinated citations across 51 papers, representing 1.1% of total citations.
NeurIPS stated that inaccurate citations do not invalidate the papers' content, while the conference received over 21,000 submissions in 2025.
GPTZero's tool, which claims over 99% accuracy, verifies citations against academic databases.
The findings underscore the risks associated with AI-generated content in scholarly work.