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Postdoc at the Université de Genève. Studying memory.
https://www.josecarloscamillo.com/
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Marcos Fanton
4 days ago
Dia 10.02, Pedro (
@93pedrobravo.bsky.social
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@davidludwig.bsky.social
) e C. El-Hani. O livro é maravilhoso. Não deixem de se inscrever pelo link:
bit.ly/4jtM3rD
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Philosophy @ NTU Singapore
5 days ago
James Openshaw has been awarded an MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant! The project, 'Referential (dis)continuities in imagination and memory', will run for 3 years from March 2026 to Feb 2029.
www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...
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Supporting Impactful Research: MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant Awarded to Asst. Prof. James Openshaw
Asst. Prof. Openshaw's principal interests are in philosophy of mind/cognitive science.
https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/news/detail/supporting-impactful-research--moe-acrf-tier-1-grant-awarded-to-asst.-prof.-james-openshaw
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Jonathan Birch
11 days ago
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today:
plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...
. Hope you find it useful!
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Governo do Brasil
12 days ago
Viva a cultura brasileira! 🇧🇷
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Philosophical Psychology
25 days ago
Latest papers: José Carlos Camillo analyses recent empirical findings about memory traces and argues that although many of them favour Causalism and seem inconsistent with Simulationism, memory traces also provide data that are inconsistent with Causalism
doi.org/10.1080/0951...
#philsky
#philpsy
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David Colaço
29 days ago
The Deadline for Commentary Proposals for our target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is Tuesday, February 3, 2026. For details, follow the reposted link below:
@phaueis.bsky.social
#philsci
#cogsky
#CognitiveNeuroscience
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Philosophical Psychology
about 1 month ago
Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work!
think.taylorandfranc...
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Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry
Submit work that examines how Hacking’s historical and pragmatic approach to philosophy has reshaped inquiries into psychiatry.
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/ian-hacking-philosophy-psychiatry
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Domingos Faria
about 1 month ago
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Funded postdoctoral positions (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy – University of Porto (Portugal)
FCT Stimulus to Scientific Employment Individual Grant CEEC IND - 8th Edition Call for Expressions of Interest The Institute of Philosophy (IF), a research unit of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto (FLUP), Portugal, invites eligible and highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to submit expressions of interest for consideration as applicants to the Stimulus to Scientific Employment Individual Grant – 8th Edition, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), with IF serving as the host institution. […]
https://dfaria.eu/6893
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David Colaço
about 2 months ago
The call for commentary proposals for
@phaueis.bsky.social
and my BBS target article is now posted. It appears that one can download the preprint via this page. Think about it:
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Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
Call for Commentary Proposals - Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/announcements/call-for-papers/call-for-commentary-proposals-metabolic-considerations-for-cognitive-modeling
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LSE Philosophy
about 2 months ago
🎥 Watch the Lakatos Award Lecture 2025 by Mazviita Chirimuuta on "Apocalyptic Technology:
#AI
and the Limits of
#Science
" Mazviita Chirimuuta received the award for her book “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience”
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Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh): Apocalyptic Technology: AI and the Limits of Science
YouTube video by LSE Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KkXjBYsUMQ
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The Memory Palace
about 2 months ago
Can our memories ever be unfair or unjust? Today at The Memory Palace, Kathy Puddfoot explores the concept of "mnemonic injustice" and how our memories can serve a role in treating people with justice.
thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/wronged-by...
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Wronged by Memory
Katherine Puddifoot (Durham University)
https://thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/wronged-by-memory
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory
2 months ago
Save the date: 18–19 Feb 2026, Civic House, Glasgow. Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the
@triphilosophy.bsky.social
Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon. Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025
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Felipe De Brigard
3 months ago
Good news everyone:
#Duke
Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) are back!! We are now accepting applications for SSNAP 2026, which will take place from May 26 to June 6, 2026.
#neuroscience
#philosophy
#brain
Please spread the word!
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Katja Crone
3 months ago
My blog post about generic memory has just been published on The Memory Palace:
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Laerte
3 months ago
Saiu na Folha
@folha.com
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I put the rizz in Razgriz
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Laerte
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saiu na Folha
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David Colaço
3 months ago
My article "When Engrams Become Exograms: Organic Data Memory and Biological Memory Extension" is now available open access from Review of Philosophy and Psychology. This is part of a special issue on "Memory and Technology: 4E Perspectives"
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When Engrams Become Exograms: Organic Data Memory and Biological Memory Extension - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
The advent of novel technologies has bolstered the idea of extended memory, where memory processes extend beyond the human body or brain. However, investigations of extended memory, and extended cogni...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-025-00789-6?fbclid=IwY2xjawNtcupleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkPm048YBdDZHE7DKa3jyj8bnpEgyZbAUZK08YiH8Tw0KqeWZQT0v25QLzHf_aem_mJC3J4ucAMiW4V4vyco5Uw
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David Colaço
4 months ago
I am collecting articles that needle conventions about heredity (it ties to my work on memory). "Paternal exercise confers endurance capacity to offspring through sperm microRNAs," is an example, about which I have things to say. Any thoughts?
www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
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Paternal exercise confers endurance capacity to offspring through sperm microRNAs
Yin et al. show that paternal exercise improves offspring endurance capacity and metabolic health via sperm microRNAs that reprogram gene expression in early embryos, revealing how exercise benefits c...
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(25)00388-2
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My paper 'Memory traces and the (anti)causalist debate' has been published in Philosophical Psychology. In it, I argue that the debate between causalism and simulationism is a debate about the functional profile of the episodic memory system (1/4)
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Memory traces and the (anti)causalism debate
One of the most important debates in the philosophy of memory is the causalism versus post-causalism debate. On the one hand, causalists defend the thesis that remembering requires a causal link vi...
https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2571449
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Nathália de Ávila
4 months ago
My translation (EN - PT) for the Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology project is finally out // Minha tradução saiu, oh glória.
@matthewbroome.bsky.social
@ljspencer.bsky.social
many many thanks 🙏🏻
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Vista do Fenomenologia da Temporalidade e Psicopatologia Dimensional, de Thomas Fuchs e Mauro Pallagrosi
https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/88265/67975
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Edouard Machery
4 months ago
This is how democracies defend themselves. Le pen in France, bolsonaro in Brazil a lesson for the USA. Trump should never have been allowed to run again.
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Au Brésil, l’ex-président d’extrême droite Jair Bolsonaro condamné à 27 ans pour sa tentative de coup d’Etat
Une majorité de juges de la Cour suprême brésilienne a voté ce jeudi 11 septembre pour reconnaître l’ex-dirigeant coupable d’avoir conspiré afin de se maintenir au pouvoir malgré sa défaite électorale...
https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/jair-bolsonaro-ancien-president-du-bresil-reconnu-coupable-pour-sa-tentative-de-coup-detat-20250911_TQGOZPTATZG3XPCKYZC4OOHG7Y/
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Anna Alexandrova
6 months ago
Such a readable and fascinating argument by
@jessiemunton.bsky.social
of
@cambridgephilos.bsky.social
To see a visual object is to see how it could be, not just how it is.
#openaccess
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Can we perceive modal properties?
Can we see only how things actually are, or are we also able to see how things could be? Much work in philosophy of perception assumes that our visual perceptual experience is restricted to the actua....
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Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
6 months ago
“Traits” are central units of biological analysis—but how should they be individuated, and relative to which ontogenetic frame of reference? In my new paper, I argue that answering this isn’t easy—and matters more than it seems. 📃👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsci
#HPBio
#evosky
#evodevo
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Two nice things happened to me recently: 1. Last Thursday, I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. I would like to thank mainly Professor Ghisoni and
@openshaw.bsky.social
, who supervised my research. The members of my committee and the friends I made along the way were also crucial.
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The paper is now out:
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Daniel J Nicholson
7 months ago
Every biological entity is unique; no two are exactly alike. Is this a trivial observation, or a profound metaphysical claim about the living world? Read my new paper & find out! It deals with Mayr's "Population Thinking"; one of the most familiar yet tragically misunderstood ideas in all of biology
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Population Thinking and the Uniqueness of Biological Entities - Acta Biotheoretica
Acta Biotheoretica - The concept of ‘population thinking’ was introduced by Ernst Mayr in the mid-twentieth century and it has since become one of the most pervasive notions in the...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10441-025-09498-0
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Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior! We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"
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My paper "Success atomism: the accuracy of episodic memory and its relevant elements" has been accepted for publication in Synthese. Please, check it out on my website. (1/4)
josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html
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Research
José Carlos Camillo
https://josecarloscamillo.weebly.com/research.html
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noam chompers
8 months ago
ej green and i wrote a paper, which has been accepted for publication in nous! i won't lie to you, the paper is quite long and i'd say a bit dense, but here's a link to the full paper and a (...long, sorry) thread to give you a feel for the thing
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Mason Westfall & E. J. Green, Perceptual Abstraction - PhilPapers
Perception puts us in touch with highly determinate properties of objects, such as fine-grained color shades and detailed surface shapes. However, most of our immediate perceptual judgments concern mo...
https://philpapers.org/rec/WESPAO-2
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
8 months ago
Get it while it's hot: BJPS Associate Editor Dana Tulodziecki's (
@193.bsky.social
) addition to the Cambridge Elements series, Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues, is out now and free
#philsci
#philsky
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Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/underdetermination-and-theoretical-virtues/1DA6B57C8A072380DA90E6A706DF9583
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Alisa Bokulich
8 months ago
📣 My latest coauthored paper with Wendy Parker "Understanding Data Uncertainty" is finally forthcoming in /Studies in History & Philosophy of Science/:
philarchive.org/rec/BOKUDU
#philsci
#philsky
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Alisa Bokulich & Wendy Parker, Understanding Data Uncertainty - PhilArchive
Scientific data without uncertainty estimates are increasingly seen as incomplete. Recent discussions in the philosophy of data, however, have given little attention to the nature of uncertainty estim...
https://philarchive.org/rec/BOKUDU
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Paul Bogdan
8 months ago
Thrilled to see a news piece by
@science.org
on my recent paper. By analyzing p-values across >240k papers, the study suggests that the rate of statistically questionable findings in psychology has declined since the replication crisis began
www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘A big win’: Dubious statistical results are becoming less common in psychology
Fewer papers are reporting findings on the border of statistical significance, a potential marker of dodgy research practices
https://www.science.org/content/article/big-win-dubious-statistical-results-are-becoming-less-common-psychology
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Marcos Fanton
8 months ago
muito bom! todo filósofo que trabalha com psico ou outras áreas das ciências socias deveria ouvir.
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Robin McKenna
8 months ago
I'm involved in this exciting new project. There will be 2 postdocs, one in Liverpool and one in Luxembourg. The Liverpool ad will be posted soonish. The Luxembourg one is here:
recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...
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Dorsa Amir
12 months ago
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Sarah Robins
8 months ago
What does it mean to relive past experiences? How should the feeling of episodic memory be studied? Francesca Righetti is at The Memory Palace with some thoughts on how to use phenomenology to move forward on these questions. Check it out!
#philsky
#philscisky
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Naftali Weinberger
8 months ago
I decided to make a youtube channel in which I introduce key concepts from causal inference in videos of roughly 10 minutes. The first episode "Correlation Does Imply Causation" is now online. Feedback would be very welcome.
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Causal Foundations Episode 1: Correlation Does Imply Causation
YouTube video by Naftali Weinberger
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Tomer Ullman
8 months ago
Out now in TiCS, something i've been thinking about a lot: "Physics vs. graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition" (by Balaban & me) relevant for many people, related to imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, aphantasia, and more
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBaC4sIRv...
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
8 months ago
Can't believe it's been a whole year since I made this. Thank you to everyone who's shared what it means to them seeing Pride represented with images from near and far, all across the universe. The original page was taken down, but can still be found on
archive.org
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web.archive.org/web/20250129...
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Round Ball Approximately
8 months ago
A new article
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
folks might be interested in. (free pdf!) Dubé, Chad, and Kenneth J. Malmberg. "A Convergence of Theories of Mind and Brain." Computational Brain & Behavior (2025): 1-22.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Atila Iamarino
8 months ago
O
@pirulla25.bsky.social
é uma das pessoas mais íntegras que conheço. É terrível que esteja passando por isso, ainda mais com a família dependendo dele. A recuperação deve demorar. Quem quiser entender ou puder ajudar financeiramente, segue abaixo. Quem não puder, a torcida por melhoras tb ajuda.
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Sergi Valverde
8 months ago
Douglas et al. shows that up to 99% of evolutionary change occur at branching points across genes, morphology, and language. A major step for punctuated evolution, aligning with our goal of a unified framework.
@nilese.bsky.social
@andrejpaleo.bsky.social
#EvoBio
#CultEvo
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Evolution is coupled with branching across many granularities of life | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Across many scales of life, the rate of evolutionary change is often accelerated at the time when one lineage splits into two. The emergence of novel protein function can be facilitated by gene duplication (neofunctionalization); rapid morphological ...
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0182
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Lucas Salgado
8 months ago
"Homem com H" vem mostrando uma sustentação melhor nas bilheterias brasileiras que "Karatê Kid: Lendas". Na última semana, o brasileiro teve queda de 46% de bilheteria e o americano teve 74%. Só que o brasileiro perdeu 60% das salas. E o americano apenas 20%.
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PessoaBrain
8 months ago
𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻–𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗰𝘆𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 It's astrocyte month!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Grace Lindsay
8 months ago
When we communicate science, we often don't say where the resources for it come from. This is clearly a mistake: people consuming science should know who is funding it--and if that funding is being taken away. So, I decided to document the funding sources of every scientist mentioned in my book.
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noam chompers
8 months ago
sometimes people get told their stuff 'feels grad student-y', which could mean lots of things obviously. here's one thing i think it often means, and something i think it's good to get a bit more thoughtful about as you move from writing seminar papers to writing things you want to publish (thread)
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Lucina Uddin
8 months ago
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08953-9
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Alan Winfield
8 months ago
This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative
#AI
produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month:
www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/
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