{"id":213442,"date":"2026-05-13T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/ai-is-fabricating-citations-in-biomedical-studies-researchers-find\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:15:10","slug":"ai-is-fabricating-citations-in-biomedical-studies-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/ai-is-fabricating-citations-in-biomedical-studies-researchers-find\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is fabricating citations in biomedical studies, researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-hallucinate-citations-medial-research\/\">AI is fabricating citations in biomedical studies, researchers find<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-hallucinate-citations-medial-research\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-hallucinate-citations-medial-research\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 17:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbsnews.com\">www.cbsnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An audit found over 4,000 citations in millions of biomedical papers to unverified or non-existent research according to a study published in The Lancet.<\/li>\n<li>The issue poses significant risks as these fabricated citations can distort clinical guidelines, affecting patient care decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Lead researcher Maxim Topaz highlighted not only the dangers but also the increasing rate at which fake references are appearing in published medical literature, which has grown twelve-fold in the past three years.<\/li>\n<li>Topaz himself experienced a case of AI generating a fake citation in his work, which slipped through multiple peer review layers before being identified.<\/li>\n<li>The problem underscores the need for rigorous fact-checking in research, as AI-generated citations can appear credible and misleading.<\/li>\n<li>The study suggests broader issues with AI-generated citations across various fields, emphasizing the critical role of researchers in scrutinizing their sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is fabricating citations in biomedical studies, researchers find https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ai-hallucinate-citations-medial-research\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-13 17:09:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/13\/8743c8b3-c67e-44fc-a32c-ec5720c5917b\/thumbnail\/1200x630\/0909357cf62c7328716c2b1d62ace1ce\/screenshot-2026-05-13-at-11-24-05-am.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213446,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213442\/revisions\/213446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}