I agree, it would be interesting to see if there are some cognitive advantages associated with the "special interests" personality traits, in general.

This has existed for a long time before LLM, although in a slower form. On Wikipedia it's called "citogenesis".

Citogenesis specifically refers to a citation loop. This is just lying on the internet

Yea, I started out thinking "well you just use the thing to find citations." Then I realized all this article is just: "I lied on the internet and people believed me, isn't that crazy!?!"

This type of behavior is why gatekeeping institutions exist. We all pay a non-trivial cost because someone thinks that other people taking their lies seriously is somehow remarkable. It's not.

Research is hard work. Publishing fake research is just intentionally throwing wrenching into the machine of academia. All you've done is reinforce the need for gatekeepers (which never went away), show that some no-name journal isn't rigorous (they often aren't), and you've wasted a bunch of people's time demonstrating why institutions exist, when we know why they exist.

Genuinely terrible behavior.

Too bad "citosis" is too close to "cytosis," I think it would have been cleverer.

Quote Wikipedia:

> "Citogenesis" redirects here; not to be confused with cytogenesis.

I had to read that three times. I thought it was a self-referential joke at first. Turns out the name was a joke from an xkcd. Can't argue with that source in terms of authority.

Greeks and Romans did experience a >99% loss of their literature during the medieval period...

When someone refers to the Greeks and Romans they are refering to a time long before the medieval period. Things got continued to get better after their most well known thinkers died for a century. (well define better... The there is a lot we would hate about their culture, but they would have considered better)