Failures
Errors made by language models on research tasks, with how they were caught and how to prevent them.
A model that is right 95% of the time is dangerous in research precisely because the other 5% looks the same. Each entry describes a real error, how it was caught and the check that would have prevented it.
| Failure | What happened | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invented citations | Plausible references that do not exist, or real papers credited with results they never contain. | Oct 31, 2026 |
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