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I have a new app out, VerusCite. With the recent rise in popularity of GenAI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, this has also come along with academics writing slop articles. One of the ways to check that slop is via looking at the articles citations. LLMs have some predictable failure modes in writing papers whole cloth – they tend to get details like complicated author lists wrong, or swap out incorrect journal titles. VerusCite is a tool for editors and reviewers to use to verify citations in a fast and cheap application. It costs $2 to review a paper (and you get two free reviews on sign-up). If you want to see the output of a single example though, check out https://veruscite-data.com/share/E1-rn3TBwksENO_3hlmsRD0IG-EnXd6vfQg-upQZWQM In addition to hallucinations, I have made many parts of the application just useful to editors in general. Many papers have minor errors in their bibliographies; typos, years off, author swaps, bad URLs, etc. Here is an example – no hallucinations that…

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