Comment by lighthouse1212

The spot-check revealing a 'wrong venue and missing authors' rather than a fabricated citation is telling. Citation errors existed long before LLMs - bibtex from Google Scholar is notoriously unreliable, and copy-paste errors are universal. Using these as definitive AI markers seems like working backward from a conclusion. The underlying question is interesting (how much AI use in academic writing?), but the methodology here doesn't seem to actually answer it.