AI-written math nonsense now looks so plausible that even bad citations feel useful
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-23
The quoted point is that fake math writing used to be easy to spot, but now it can look polished, technical, and sometimes even correct enough to fool people.
The reply adds a cynical twist: people were never truly defending bibliographies, they just loved having an easier way to verify machine-generated work when hallucinated citations became common.
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