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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. Francesco De Gasperin Oct 31, 2026
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