LLMs shatter the illusion that paper-looking means trustworthy

Scholars argue that LLMs have invalidated academia's implicit trust in professionally formatted papers, since convincing paper-shaped output can now be mass-generated. Ironically, this may be LLMs' biggest contribution: forcing academia to confront a long-standing false signal and rebuild real verification mechanisms.

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