Another way to look at the problem of LLM-generated garbage papers is that it doesn't actually change anything, because serious researchers in a given field already didn't trust work coming from unknown labs in shady journals. Researchers need to earn a reputation first by doing all the usual things like going to conferences (to build personal relationships), publishing reproducible results in real journals, making an actual impact on important problems, etc. Basically, LLM papers are just a new contribution to the already existing background noise.