The cheaper and more accurate GPT-6 Luna model, plus Perplexity's fast search, cut my per-paper costs by more than half, so a VerusCite review now costs $1.

Books and software for crime analysts: Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python, Large Language Models for Mortals, and more.

Until recently I had only used the AI tools pay-as-you-go, but lately I have been experimenting with the $20 monthly subscription. So I ended up with extra credits to burn. I would periodically jus…

Google Scholar can turn hallucinated citations into indexed records, and it can keep older bibliographic errors in circulation. That is why VerusCite does not use it as a fallback.

Investigative interviewing research has produced valuable insights into effective techniques for gathering information. However, this research often fails to fully bridge the gap between academia a...

I recompiled Large Language Models for Mortals six months after release. Here is what broke, what I got right, and what I got wrong.

How many papers and citations VerusCite has checked, average processing time, and the share of hallucinated and minor-error citations.

I recompiled Large Language Models for Mortals six months after release. Here is what broke, what I got right, and what I got wrong.

51 papers and 231 hallucinated citations catalogued in VerusCite's Hall of Hallucinations.

Large scale audits of fabricated references only match on titles. Hand-checking the 10 most recent papers in the hall of hallucinations, a third of the errors were a real title with the wrong authors ...

Large scale audits of fabricated references only match on titles. Hand-checking the 10 most recent papers in the hall of hallucinations, a third of the errors were a real title with the wrong authors ...

If you do not follow me on social media (X, LinkedIn), you likely have missed the different work I have been up to. So this is a remix of some of that, posted here for folks to follow along. Crime …

93 citations · 62 verified · 0 hallucinations

Google Scholar can turn hallucinated citations into indexed records, and it can keep older bibliographic errors in circulation. That is why VerusCite does not use it as a fallback.

Google Scholar can turn hallucinated citations into indexed records, and it can keep older bibliographic errors in circulation. That is why VerusCite does not use it as a fallback.

12 papers and 45 hallucinated citations catalogued in VerusCite's Hall of Hallucinations.

42 citations · 33 verified · 1 hallucinations