That's what happens when a paper is withdrawn [1], and MIT requested to withdraw the paper [2]. This news title saying that they requested to take down the paper is subtly incorrect.
Remember event-stream[1]? Did we learned something from that? Yes, we might. So was it improved? Never. People are still installing 'new' colors package and wondering why its texts are broken.
What if he uploaded malicious code rather than just just gibberish? What if he uploaded on only npm and not on GitHub? Would we even notice that?
[1]: https://info.arxiv.org/help/withdraw.html#:~:text=Previous%2...
[2]: https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-re...