If it is true that...

Once the loops on fabricated claims and citations are closed, one may have to start doing real-world things to establish that authors didn’t exist or the events did not happen

and

Doing real-world things to establish that authors didn't exist or the events did not happen is both a lot of work and itself highly unreliable

Then it must be true that...

Once the loops on fabricated claims and citations are closed, the fact-checker is in serious trouble

If it is true that...

With generative models, it will become entirely possible to close the loops on fabricated claims and their citations

and

Once the loops on fabricated claims and citations are closed, the fact-checker is in serious trouble

Then it must be true that...

The rise of generative models will produce serious problems