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Ethan Bolker
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You seem to have sufficient reasons to reject the paper on its (de)merits, whether or not it was written by a bot.

You can certainly tell the editor that you are suspicious.

I doubt that the editor has software (free or otherwise) that could tell whether the paper was bot generated.

I wonder if the many citations are real. Chatbots are notably nonsensical in that realm. You could quickly check a few. Even if real they may be irrelevant.

Finally, LLMs can indeed scrape SE posts. Whether they could use that information to learn how to do better is unclear.

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