Science at LLM Speed · Research-like output is cheap. A valid claim still needs evidence that can show it is wrong.

Earlier this year, the program chairs for one of the largest machine-learning conferences found references in submitted papers to publications that did not exist. This was not a thought experiment about what a language model might do. It was not a benchmark in which researchers asked a model to write a literature review and then counted the invented citations. These were papers submitted to ICLR…