#fakereferences
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #fakereferences from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #fakereferences
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-03 08:05 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-03 08:05 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #fakereferences.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-03 08:05 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~2242 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (2) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 21
Top of the latest posts
Fake references. While peer-reviewing an academic paper, I checked the reference list and found that around 80% of the cited sources simply do not exist. It seems highly likely that they were fabricated by GenAI. This isn't a mistake. It's
How 'Artificial Intelligence' Is Slowly Drowning In Its Own Droppings https://nxdomain.no/~peter/llm_degradation_by_circular_feedback.html #AI #artificiainanity #artificialintelligence #wordproximityprobability #chatgpt #openai #generativea
🔎 Philipp Zumstein (UB Mannheim) – Fake Referenzen prüfen KI‑Texte erzeugen oft nicht existierende Quellen. Das Open‑Source‑Tool check‑fake‑references gleicht DOI, OpenAlex, GoogleBooks & ZDB automatisch ab. GitHub: https://github.com/UB-M
#fakereferences across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #fakereferences straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/fakereferences