alt Hacker NewsI bet, since this has been posted, someone here has already vibe coded a reference checker that they plan to put behind a subscription.
This is good for reference checking, but I doubt this will do much for the most likely shoddy science that accompanies hallucinated references.
The frontier LLMs are getting pretty good at checking this sort of thing. You could prompt them to not only verify the references are real but that they actually state what the article claims. Some human review will still be needed but I'll bet this approach could find a lot of academic fraud.