alt Hacker NewsThey are still purposely writing a paper, whether that is with the help of an LLM or not. They are instructing the LLM to do the task of finding citations. It's no difference to googling for a paper that explains a specific point. You would still double check Google's output.
So you just write whatever you want, then find a source for it later? I don't think you understand how this is supposed to work