Yes, I think verifying mere existence of the cited paper barely moves the needle. I mean, I guess automated verification of that is a cheap rejection criterion, but I don’t think it’s overall very useful.

really good point. one of the cofounders of gptzero here!

the tool gptzero used in the article also detects if the citation supports the claim too, if you scroll to "cited information accuracy" here: https://app.gptzero.me/documents/1641652a-c598-453f-9c94-e0b...

this is still in beta because its a much harder problem for sure, since its hard to determine if a 40 page paper supports a claims (if the paper claims X is computationally intractable, does that mean algorithms to compute approximate X are slow?)