GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
Table of contents Last month, GPTZero used our Hallucination Check tool to uncover 50 hallucinated citations in papers under review for ICLR 2026. However, we knew that ICLR (the International Conference on Learning Representations) was just one of hundreds of academic conferences and publications besieged by a tsunami of AI slop. After scanning 4841 papers accepted by the equally prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), we discovered 100s of hallucinated citations missed by the 3+ reviewers who evaluated each paper. Below, we uncover 100 confirmed hallucinations in the table below, spanning over 51 NeurIPS papers, which were not previously reported.Figure 1: Distribution of hallucinations by author’s institution. How we computed this: a…
