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ChatGPT-generated medical content shows high reference error rates

ChatGPT-generated medical content shows high reference error rates.

Summary

The PubMed-indexed Cureus study generated 30 short medical papers with ChatGPT-3.5 and checked the references. Among 115 generated references, it reports that 47% were fabricated, 46% were authentic but inaccurate, and only 7% were both authentic and accurate.

AI role

AI contributes to generating, ranking, predicting, proving, designing, or validating a concrete research output in medicine, general science.

Narrative role

This belongs in the timeline because it records a concrete AI-assisted scientific output rather than only a workflow, product, or adoption signal.

Caveat

The event should be read as a bounded research result unless later validation, independent replication, adoption, or field-level impact is tracked separately.