>Fabricated citations are not errors.

Interesting that you hallucinated the word "fabricated" here where I broadly talked about errors. Humans, right? Can't trust them.

Firstly, just about every paper ever written in the history of papers has errors in it. Some small, some big. Most accidental, but some intentional. Sometimes people are sloppy keeping notes, transcribe a row, get a name wrong, do an offset by 1. Sometimes they just entirely make up data or findings. This is not remotely new. It has happened as long as we've had papers. Find an old, pre-LLM paper and go through the citations -- especially for a tosser target like this where there are tens of thousands of low effort papers submitted -- and you're going to find a lot of sloppy citations that are hard to rationalize.

Secondly, the "hallucination" is that this particular snake-oil firm couldn't find given papers in many cases (they aren't foolish enough to think that means they were fabricated. But again, they're looking to sell a tool to rubes, so the conclusion is good enough), and in others that some of the author names are wrong. Eh.

> Firstly, just about every paper ever written in the history of papers has errors in it

LLMs make it easier and faster, much like guns make killing easier and faster.