NeurIPS, one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims

NeurIPS, one of the world’s most prestigious AI research conferences, held its 38th annual meeting in San Diego in December, drawing tens of thousands of submissions and participants. What was once a largely academic gathering has become a prime hunting ground for top AI labs, where a strong showing can translate directly into job offers. Researchers whose papers are accepted for live presentation are considered among the field’s elite.

Yet Canadian startup GPTZero analyzed more than...