"articles which include references to nonexistent research material — the papers that don’t get flagged and retracted for this use of AI, that is — are themselves being cited in other papers, which effectively launders their erroneous citations"

To be clear many of them are using it

True story: on official university forms that ask what technology I use in the classroom, I sing the praises of the codex, still the best tool for teaching literature in a group setting