Welp. Between this and the earlier AI-"written" book, I am thisclose to recommending that we cease purchasing titles from Springer

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

"Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors."

Just learned that an OIT colleague is arguing that we should refuse to call it "generative AI" and instead call it "derivative AI", because a) accurate, and b) of the negative connotations of derivative. Makes sense to me....