Accenture accused of publishing major research full of AI hallucinations — paper featured as many as 15 fictitious citations and case studies

Software vendor GPTZero identified dozens of fabricated citations across research papers published by Accenture and IE University. Accenture blamed human oversight for the errors and promised to correct the work. Researchers and analytics teams now face the task of vetting citations in corporate white papers before using them.

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