Title: I was trying to find references to mathematical treatment of lists, and queried ChatGPT the following:<p>Please provide references that deal with the mathematical properties of lists<p>To which ChatGPT responded as follows:<p><pre><code>    &quot;Introduction to the Mathematics of Lists&quot; by Peter J. Cameron (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;books&#x2F;introduction-to-the-mathematics-of-lists&#x2F;3F0C6D0E69E49BF6D5CD6CA5D6A761B2)

    &quot;List Processing and Programming&quot; by John F. Sowa (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;~fp&#x2F;courses&#x2F;lp&#x2F;lectures.html)

    &quot;List Processing in Prolog&quot; by David H. D. Warren (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.purdue.edu&#x2F;homes&#x2F;hosking&#x2F;726&#x2F;html&#x2F;prolog_lists.html)

    &quot;Introduction to the Mathematics of Lists and Trees&quot; by Meinard Müller (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;10.1007%2F978-3-319-05147-1)

    &quot;Mathematics of Lists and Trees&quot; by Markus N. Rabe (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;296955213_Mathematics_of_Lists_and_Trees)
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I was pretty surprised and happy, because I hadn&#x27;t had much success with Google. But it turns out that <i>every single one of those references and links</i> are made up. The references don&#x27;t exist and the links themselves appear to be cobbled together. The last link for example, takes you to a paper on &quot;Grain mixes for subgrade layers&quot; - the title in the url is irrelevant and only the number matters.<p>Googling for some of those authors throws up author pages with their publications, and it turns out they&#x27;ve  never published papers with those titles! See for example, http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-groups.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk&#x2F;~pjc&#x2F;publ&#x2F;
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