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Prof. Sam Lawler@sundogplanets@mastodon.social (2026-09-26 10:25:52)
Ok last post stewing about this: I just looked more carefully and pretty much all of the citations are wrong in some strange way.  But they're all clearly based on citations that I've used in writing.  

Don't use genAI for science, kids.
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rednikki@rednikki@toot.boston (2026-09-26 10:42:20)
@sundogplanets AI is terrible for citations. Citations are a huge part of my job (I edit at a journal). All of us journal people are trying to send up the alarm about how much AI screws up citations, and no one is listening. If you ask AI to format your citations it will mess up all your DOIs and make things that look right but are not at all.

JAMA has written a thing on this, which is polite and journal-speak for "oh god, oh god, do not let AI touch your citations": https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2852772