> These six-figure reports are produced by underpaid kids in their twenties working 18 hours a day.

That's accurate, for the first draft. Similar to big legal firms - subsequent versions are signed-off and passed up (and if revisions request, down) the hierarchy, each stratum with its own billing rate(s).

Which makes me wonder when the hallucinations got added.

Not where I used to work. Any "sign off" was some director making sure the letterhead looked right.