Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common
Unfortunately, it's an open secret that fake or low-effort almost useless papers are very common in every area of scientific research.<p>Typically, it doesn't affect people working in that specific area - they develop/have a sixth sense to detect bullshit papers - it comes with experience but depends on several factors including the authors reputation, their institution (for the first screening), what journal/conference the paper was published in, authors other work, and sometimes things as simple as how much effort was put into the figures, polishing the text, etc. Some of these things are LLM proof, some of them are not - e.g. a senior professor I was talking to, who's been getting like 50-100 emails a week from non-english speaking countries (primarily India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) mentioned that the quality of the text in the emails went up significantly almost overnight after ChatGPT was made open to public. It'll be interesting to see how things change in the next few months/years.