I don’t have an answer but a colleague of mine showed me hallucinated (made up and undesirable) references that affected my work as it appeared at a conference presentation… No one is safe. And hey chat, wtf are Arne Van Hoey and Ma Ruiqi?
Serious question: I found an ACL 2026 paper with clearly hallucinated references (my first name and those of two co-authors are wrong, and there are other refs that are also affected) — what should I do?