{"id":172522,"date":"2025-11-10T04:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172522\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T04:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:12:05","slug":"non-existent-ai-generated-references-in-paper-spark-university-of-hong-kong-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/172522\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-existent AI-generated references in paper spark University of Hong Kong probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s oldest university has launched an investigation after a published academic paper by a PhD candidate was found to contain non-existent references generated by AI.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The corresponding author, Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai of the social work and social administration department at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), apologised for himself and his PhD student, Bai Yiming, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The allegation first appeared on social media platform Threads, with a user saying she \u201cwas told by a friend\u201d that many of the references in the paper appeared to be the results of \u201cAI hallucination\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yip told the media he had found out that Bai, the lead author of the paper, had used <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) to help with referencing without verifying the citations herself, while he had the task of gatekeeping as the corresponding author.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He claimed that, in his view, the issue did not involve academic integrity because the content of the paper, which was accepted after two rounds of academic review, was not fabricated.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The paper\u2019s other authors had only given advice and helped with data analysis, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s oldest university has launched an investigation after a published academic paper by a PhD candidate was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,98456,289,3498,290,98455,98465,18,98464,98457,98462,19,17,98460,98461,98459,98463,82,98458,21158,13563],"class_list":{"0":"post-172522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-hallucination","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-bai-yiming","14":"tag-china-population-and-development-studies","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-faculty-of-social-sciences","17":"tag-forty-years-of-fertility-transition-in-hong-kong","18":"tag-hku","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-journal-of-marriage-and-family","22":"tag-phd-candidate","23":"tag-professor-yip-siu-fai","24":"tag-social-work-and-social-administration-department","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-the-university-of-hong-kong","27":"tag-threads","28":"tag-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}