How are you suggesting the fake citation came about? Why are you writing papers and not having actually read the source you took the material from?

> Why are you writing papers and not having actually read the source you took the material from?

They're explicitly not writing papers. The fake citations are created and inserted by the LLM

They are still purposely writing a paper, whether that is with the help of an LLM or not. They are instructing the LLM to do the task of finding citations. It's no difference to googling for a paper that explains a specific point. You would still double check Google's output.

So you just write whatever you want, then find a source for it later? I don't think you understand how this is supposed to work