A hallucinated NeurIPS citation propagated into OpenReview and Google Scholar

False conference metadata in citation exports shows how academic databases can launder fabricated publication claims

A clearly hallucinated citation! NeurIPS 2026 decisions aren't out yet. But wait --- the hallucination is also present in the bibtex entries from openreview https:// openreview.net/forum?id=fAjbY Bmonr … and Google Scholar https:// schola

Ranked #28 on backlist 2026-05-20 (20 May 2026 UTC) · by @Aaroth (Aaron Roth) · view on X ↗

How it ranks: Backlist reads my Twitter/X timeline, scores every tweet for substance with an LLM rubric (not engagement), and publishes the daily top picks with a one-line takeaway. Curated by Surya Dantuluri.