Comment by jasonfarnon

agree, I dont find this evidence of AI. It often happened that authors change, there are multiple venues, or I'm using an old version of the paper. We also need to see the denominator. If this google paper had this one bad citation out of 20 versus out of 60.

Also everyone I know has been relying on google scholar for 10+ years. Is that AI-ish? There are definitely errors on there. If you would extrapolate from citation issues to the content in the age of LLMs, were you doing so then as well?

It's the age-old debate about spelling/grammar issues in technical work. In my experience it rarely gets to the point that these errors eg from non-native speakers affect my interpretation. Others claim to infer shoddy content.