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AI-Assisted Academic Paper Cites Nonexistent TorrentFreak Article

Original: AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

An academic paper about Z-Library, written with AI assistance, has been found to cite a TorrentFreak article that was never published. The fabricated citation is being taken as another example of AI-generated content inventing sources, raising questions about peer review and research standards in scholarship touching on piracy and shadow libraries.

Why now: People are discussing it as a fresh example of AI hallucinating plausible but fake citations that slipped into academic writing.

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