A very spicy take I have is that the "wow suddenly there are fake citations in papers" phenomenon is less about AI and more like the way that trans women have lower breast cancer risk but a younger age of first discovery: once circumstances force you to check regularly you find things more often

Like, you get it, right? A culture of not checking what the fuck you were citing can't have arisen overnight. Maybe the phenomenon of incorrect names and titles showing up in bibliographies is new, but it definitely means that there were A Lot of "fake citations"-qua-"unread papers unrelated to the claim they supposedly support" already.

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI.

After finding the document in the trove, I called her.
She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it.

They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:r4htmaum3mel37tvqtidnfo4/post/3maevwksjqc2i

Who'd'a thunk it? Threads semi-federating in a way that creates a pull factor for joining threads instead of the fedi?
Hold on, I'm getting a call on the other line just now.

Uh-huh? Okay? Yes?

Sorry for that, I'm back.
Apparently there were _loads_ of people warning of that scenario.
Weird how they didn't trust the genocide enabling corporation and then events seem to show them to be correct. Again.