I think established authors should try to sprinkle obvious mistakes like that on purpose once in a while in the literature and then see how much it spreads.

How many papers have the correct formula?

I recently corrected an error in this wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Shionomisaki

Which stated: "Geologically, the cape is a flat uplifted seafood plateau"

My comment for the change: I'm not an oceanographer, but I'm pretty sure it's not a "seafood plateau". Changed to "seabed plateau"

Afterward, out of curiosity, I did a search for "seafood plateau".

I was shocked at the number of sites that exactly copied that error along with the rest of the page. Most of these sites were clones of wikipedia with the inclusion of ads.

It didn't seem that these sites were LLM generated (they were exact copies), but this seems to be the case for many scientific paper submissions now.

Where it all goes from here is extremely unclear, but it does seem a disruption to many fields which are dependent on written material is in progress...