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Anecdote Reveals Persistent Citation Errors Mirroring LLM Hallucinations

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At every new round of hand-wringing about LLM-generated citations I reminded of the time Gregory Grefenstette wrote to me to point out that the paper we had cited as "Adam Kilgarriff and Edward Grefenstette 2003" was in fact by him, not his son Edward.

3:15 PM · May 16, 2026 View on X

Let Grefenstetting be known as the kinder, gentler form of Schmidhubering.

Christopher PottsChristopher Potts@ChrisGPotts

At every new round of hand-wringing about LLM-generated citations I reminded of the time Gregory Grefenstette wrote to me to point out that the paper we had cited as "Adam Kilgarriff and Edward Grefenstette 2003" was in fact by him, not his son Edward.

10:15 PM · May 16, 2026 · 6.2K Views
10:21 PM · May 16, 2026 · 3.5K Views

At every new round of hand-wringing about LLM-generated citations I reminded of the time Gregory Grefenstette wrote to me to point out that the paper we had cited as "Adam Kilgarriff and Edward Grefenstette 2003" was in fact by him, not his son Edward.

10:15 PM · May 16, 2026 · 6.2K Views
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