"Do we believe that someone would go to the effort of setting up GPT to generate fake papers..." I'd say it depends on what their desired outcome is. If they

"Do we believe that someone would go to the effort of setting up GPT to generate fake papers..." I'd say it depends on what their desired outcome is. If they know that other people are using AI to assess the literature about a particular topic, then the content only needs to be good enough to pass that analytical AI's sniff test and bias the corpus in the way that the owner wants it to. If the owner is lazy, perhaps that affords some time against this kind of pollution. But the costs and level of effort involved will continue to reduce.