I developed CERCA, an open-source tool designed to help reviewers and researchers identify hallucinated or inconsistent references in academic manuscripts. I started this small project after discovering a hallucinated reference citing my own work.

🚀 CERCA v1.2.0-alpha is out!
New feature: Manual Reference Entry.
If it can't read your PDF, paste your reference list.

It's now on SourceForge! ⬇️ sourceforge.net/projects/cer...
#Java #JavaFX #OpenSource #Programming

Resetting my brain today

Farei episódio do meu podcast sobre água e data centers com Mauro Oliveira
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Finally, I have the time to update CERCA, based on users' feedback. #java #javafx #programming #opensource #github

Interested in discussing how Artificial Intelligence can be helpful or hurtful to academia? 🤖

As a newly minted UKRN (@ukrepro.bsky.social) Local Network Lead, I'm co-organizing a hybrid event about this next Friday (30th January)

Join us at @livunipsyc.bsky.social or online via Teams!

According to a report from GPTZero, hundreds of AI-hallucinated citations slipped through reviews. The problem is spreading. Reviewers don't have the support or time to verify each reference. Companies are popping up, selling subscription tools and platforms using AI to tackle an AI problem.

The results come from the company GPTZero, which claims they “uncovered hundreds of AI-hallucinated citations that slipped past the three or more reviewers assigned to each submission, spanning at least 53 papers in total.”

as an aside, you don't need "ai" to detect ai, you can use tools like this.

it does use some probabilistic parsing to extract the citation strings, but it's creating context you can use to evaluate citations rather than pretending to have an authoritative answer

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links.

Thanks to
n-xiao
@lidianycs.bsky.social
@frankdelporte.be
Binary Academy
ezst
Lucas Danzinger

Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!

How I Built a Tool to Detect AI-Generated Fake References
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Sharing a small open-source project I’ve been working on over the past weeks: CERCA – Citation Extraction & Reference Checking Assistant.

#research #openscience #softwaredevelopment

I left Twitter many years ago (RIP), since I realized it was going downhill after that person bought it. The toxicity was rampant for years, so I didn't see any reason to stay. I've been using LinkedIn lately, but it has different purposes. Now I'm finally here too. Let's see how it goes.

How I Built a Tool to Detect AI-Generated Fake References
dev.to/lidianycs/ho...