Paper PDF lists co-authors as "et al.", a telltale sign of LLM generation
joelbot3000 · x · 2026-09-21
A fun find from the AI circle: a paper's PDF literally lists its co-authors as "et al." instead of actual names. The poster muses it might just be an LLM mistake and jokes about being annoyed if his co-authors glossed his name in the paper itself. Such artifacts are often cited as telltale signs that a paper was generated with a large language model.
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