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A Formatted Citation Can Still Be Fake
by: Sean HonanPublished on: 08/07/2026A perfectly formatted citation can still be fake. Learn how AI hallucinated references happen, why manual checks miss them, and how Citation Risk verifies source existence and metadata before submission.
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AI Citation Checkers Are Not AI Detectors And That's the Point
by: Sean HonanPublished on: 24/04/2025AI citation checkers are not AI detectors. Instead of guessing whether text was written by AI, they verify whether references are real, accurate, and traceable.
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