And here's another. Sign all the petitions!

Or nobody could stop you from buying the 12 pack of family packs. That's 60% more Tim-tams for just 23% more dollars - even my maths skills say that's good value!

So I can just about believe the model might output the same title twice. But outputting the same author list and journal information as well isn't credible - particularly as I've never had a co-author called either Kumar or Yu, so that can't be in the training data.

I think the model "borrowed" the title from this actual paper: Faria, R. D. R., Capron, B. D. O., Secchi, A. R., & de Souza Jr, M. B. (2022). Where reinforcement learning meets process control: Review and guidelines. Processes, 10(11), 2311.

And cover it in mirrors - we can kill two birds with one stone.

I can't access either paper without paying for them. So I can't check their other references, or even confirm that they do in fact both cite "my" paper (I guess there is some chance that this is in fact an error in Google Scholar). But this looks *very* strange to me. Maybe a papermill operation?

Alqaydi, F. S. (2025, November). Reinforcement Learning-Based Process Control in the Oil and Gas Industry. In ADIPEC. OnePetro.

Al-Ballam, S., Ladraa, A., & Arfie, M. (2025, November). Driving Operational Excellence Through Data Standardization and Integrated Analytics: Delivering Digital Transformation in the North & West Kuwait Asset. In ADIPEC. OnePetro.

But looking at those citing papers, things get even stranger - they were both published at the same conference (ADIPEC), and by non-overlapping sets of authors. So for the 2nd paper to copy from the 1st, they'd have to had access to it before the submission date?

scholar.google.com/scholar?cite...

Oddly it has 2 citations on Google Scholar. I can imagine one paper including a hallucinated reference, but how did a second paper wind up citing it as well? Maybe the second paper copied the citation from the first.

It mentions RL so it sounds like something I'd write, but obviously I know that I didn't. And there's no paper matching that title with those authors, and no paper matching Vamplew at all in that journal.

Hang on a moment. I just realised this post wasn't from the usual Bengals writers that I follow but from a fellow Australian!

I think he was one of the vocalists on Release the Pressure by Leftfield.