"Source: I made it up" was a meme meant to be deployed in conversations between children online. And now we're seeing the phrase deployed sincerely and almost verbatim in the annals of the most prestigious institutions of thought.

Things seem a bit more dire now.

You're pushing back against openly using LLMs to assist in research for writing articles.

In my opinion the effect of your pushback is nudging people to not disclose their use of LLMs. I'm not sure that's what you want.

In other words, if every time someone says "I used an LLM to assist me with this article" they get backslash, these people will not stop using LLMs. They'll stop telling that they did.