[generationP]

That looks like the kind of paper that causes companies to lose lots of money by hyping up what is likely a less-than-impressive method. But it does not make any theoretical claims, so it cannot contaminate research.

[jrochkind1]

I wonder why it is so cited in the literature.

[griffzhowl]

AI hype, a write-up in WSJ with superlative comments from famous MIT profs. Should do it.

Most of the citations are to other papers on preprint servers and I guess a lot of people were working on similar themes and added it as a reference

[jrochkind1]

So, indeed, I'd guess cited it without reading it.