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you'd think that such a widely cited fraudulent paper might have caused problems in other research, but probably nobody who cited it actually read it anyway, so. it's turtles all the way down.

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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.

I wonder why it is so cited in the literature.

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

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

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