Same experience with ChatGPT tbh. I was researching a topic, asked for some references. It generated a few. The links were all valid and the author list was the

Same experience with ChatGPT tbh. I was researching a topic, asked for some references. It generated a few. The links were all valid and the author list was the same. Only ChatGPT modified the title of the papers to match my topic of research, so basically the actual references had nothing to do with it. tbh given how language models work this is not surprising.