No. Don't giving people free passes because of LLMs. Be responsible for your work.
They submitted an article with absolute lies and now the company has a reputational problem on its hands. No one cares if that happened because they sought out to publish lies or if it was because they made a tee-hee whoopsie-doodle with an LLM. They screwed up and look at the consequences they've caused for the company.
> I think for some people this could be a redeemable mistake at their job. If someone turns in a status report with a hallucination, that’s not good clearly but the damage might be a one off / teaching moment.
Why would you keep someone around who:
1. Lies
2. Doesn't seem to care enough to do their work personally, and
3. Doesn't check their work for the above-mentioned lies?
They have proven, right then, right there, that you can't trust their output because they cut corners and don't verify it.