Catch fabricated citations
Works from the premise that invented citations look more correct than real ones.
| Category | Using AI › Hallucination checks |
|---|---|
| Tags | ReviewingAnalyzingTable |
Check every citation and source in this text. **Premise: fabricated citations are a documented, repeated failure. They have appeared in filed court briefs and published papers. The fabricated ones look more correct than the real ones** — format, author names, and year are all plausible. **Per citation, report:** 1. **What is quoted** — the exact claim it is supporting 2. **Completeness** — author, title, year, publisher or journal, page, identifier. ***List what is missing. A citation missing an identifier is the first thing to doubt*** 3. **Whether the citation, even if real, actually supports the claim.** *Real source, wrong claim is the second most common failure* 4. **Signals to be suspicious of:** - **A combination of a real author and a title that does not exist** - **A page number or section too specific for the claim** - A year that does not fit the subject's timeline - An identifier in a valid format — ***format validity proves nothing about existence*** **Output:** citation / what it supports / missing fields / suspicion level / **how to verify it**. ⚠️ ***You cannot confirm whether a source exists. Do not say a citation is real.*** **Report what would have to be checked, and by whom.** Where the text has a claim with no citation at all, list those separately.
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What this prompt does
Fabricated references have reached filed legal briefs and published papers, and the fake ones are often more polished. This never declares a citation real — it flags the signals and says what must be checked.
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