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We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it

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Search any scientific paper site for "Certainly!" and hundreds pop up, where ChatGPT was clearly used. Not for translation, but for answering questions related to the paper itself.
We need to pay scientists to do peer review and reproduction studies, it's negligent for any organization to fund novel research only and not also contribute to error correction and resilience when LLMs are now available. If you can't pay for it at least release the data for reproducing the analysis. To do neither should be seen as incomplete and suspicious.
Science is already well perverted by trade groups hiring organizations to commission studies to start backwards from it is safe to put out flawed conclusions lobbyists get policy makers to accept as valid and allow big money their practices.
Worse though it will become the system has been fundamentally broken since before most of us were born. Pfas, atrazine, roundup, a million other poisons are dumped and used systematically with the science of these cynical researchers to wave around.
It is all getting worse already. Watersheds are near all sullied to some degree at this point, many of which are on centuries long water cycles, there is no unpoisoning many, just as water is becoming scarcer and overused more by monied interests.
- I only made it one paragraph deep.
  You have got to find your missing words
  
  What?

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