ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 3:51 AM UTC

abnry wrote: post #22

sigmar wrote: post #16

>“It will make it very easy for any researcher or group of researchers to create fake measurements on non-existent patients, fake answers to questionnaires or to generate a large data set on animal experiments.” Perhaps I'm naive, but I think the people that want to fake data were already doing it without tools like chatgpt. Especially since a ton of biological data is normally distributed, so it's exceedingly easy t…

Exactly. How is this news? What would be surprising is if ChatGPT _could_ generate fake data that passed analysis.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 3:52 AM UTC

vikramkr wrote: post #69

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. Unfortunat…

Post by demondemidi » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 3:54 AM UTC

ChainOfFools wrote: post #51

It's only a matter of time until someone comes up with a GPT that takes whatever off-axis theories a research paper writer wishes to promulgate, and searches the entire corpus of academic literature for references that can be strung together in such a way as to support any argument one likes. A quack's dream come true, substantiating an argument by backsolving from its feeble or malevolent conclusion to a set of well…

Post by ethanbond » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 4:00 AM UTC

devmor wrote: post #57

dclowd9901 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So we’re pretending making something an order of magnitude easier makes no difference? Ok.

Are we pretending Faker hasn't been a staple library in software testing for years?

Post by ipsum2 » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 4:10 AM UTC

shishy wrote: post #96

sigmar wrote: post #16

>“It will make it very easy for any researcher or group of researchers to create fake measurements on non-existent patients, fake answers to questionnaires or to generate a large data set on animal experiments.” Perhaps I'm naive, but I think the people that want to fake data were already doing it without tools like chatgpt. Especially since a ton of biological data is normally distributed, so it's exceedingly easy t…

Being able to do it at scale is an issue because of paper mills.