It's awesome to know that the scientific process that's been in use for centuries, based on peer review and the importance of replication, is still so powerful that AI generated fake data can't do anything to undermine it. Reality doesn't care how the data was faked when you replicate an experiment!
Now, if only scientists and institutions would actually bother using those tools we developed centuries ago. Unfortunately if they don't - you don't exactly need chatgpt to fake data you know? Replication crisis etc etc.
Long story short: Man is it awesome that the scientific method is resilient to this! Too bad nobody uses it.
Ironically one of the major papers that showed that many findings couldn't be replicated couldn't be replicated. Academia is packed to the brim with perverse incentives. It's amazing that scientists are creative and capable enough to keep consistently changing the world and gaining deep, extraordinary, and replicable insights into our universe in a broken system. It would be nice if they didn't need to fight the system though, see the story of the mRNA vaccine nobel and how hard she had to fight against the establishment to do the research that would end up saving a truly staggering number of lives
Now, if only scientists and institutions would actually bother using those tools we developed centuries ago. Unfortunately if they don't - you don't exactly need chatgpt to fake data you know? Replication crisis etc etc.
Long story short: Man is it awesome that the scientific method is resilient to this! Too bad nobody uses it.