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ACL 2026 Rejects Over 100 Accepted Papers for Hallucinated Citations

ACL has desk-rejected more than 100 papers accepted to its 2026 annual conference

The decision by ACL exposes a growing integrity problem in AI research publishing, where the use of large language models in literature review is producing fabricated references that survive peer review.