AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn’t Exist

A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesn’t exist, and several other sources in the paper are also unfindable. The authors disclose that they used AI tools, which may explain what is going on. The use of AI in an academic paper on shadow libraries is also somewhat ironic, as rightsholders are suing AI companies for using these sites to train AI models.