That is different. People who submit computer-generated papers submit them to hundreds of journals. A few of them are bound to have so lax editorial standards that they are let through. They also risk nothing, while the student who is caught computer-generating their thesis will be thrown out. Furthermore, the amount of peer review-like process a thesis or dissertation goes through is an order of magnitude greater than the amount of peer review an article gets.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01436-7
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