[dtartarotti]

It is very concerning that these hallucinations passed through peer review. It's not like peer review is a fool-proof method or anything, but the fact that reviewers did not check all references and noticed clearly bogus ones is alarming and could be a sign that the article authors weren't the only ones using LLMs in the process...

[amanaplanacanal]

Is it common for peer reviewers to check references? Somehow I thought they mostly focused on whether the experiment looked reasonable and the conclusions followed.

[emil-lp]

In journal publications it is, but without DOIs it's difficult.

In conference publications, it's less common.

Conference publications (like NEURips) is treated as announcement of results, not verified.