The new arXiv rules don’t even say you can’t be bad at citing, just don’t make up citations from whole cloth.
Improper citations are a problem which predates LLMs. I found one recently where, for more than a decade, the entire field has been citing a paper for something it didn’t do.
Erik Poppleton
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
