Pregnancy Cravings for Prime Numbers? The Fake Scientific Paper That Exposed the Crisis in Human Research (And AI)
A math professor sent an absurd paper to an obstetrics journal. Accepted in days. NeurIPS 2025 published 100+ hallucinated citations across 51 papers. 1 in 277 PubMed articles in 2026 has fabricated references. And this data will train the next generation of AI.