Maureen Shea
@moshea13.bsky.social
Curious. Concerned about climate change, public health, social inequality. Retired Sales Executive/Project Manager. I know a little about a lot. Quilter, Reader, Hiker. Education: Anthropology and Organization Development.
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Reposted by Maureen Shea
(And just to be extra clear - "our" paper in the journal Education and Information Technology, vol 27, pages 3515-3531 really does not exist in that journal, despite all its citations
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(And just to be extra clear - "our" paper in the journal Education and Information Technology, vol 27, pages 3515-3531 really does not exist in that journal, despite all its citations
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
link.springer.com/journal/1063...)
Reposted by Maureen Shea
It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.