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The perpetual motion machine of AI-generated data and the distraction of ChatGPT as a ‘scientist’

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  • 30 April 2024

    In the version of the article initially published, in Box 1, the text now reading “∼300 billion web pages” originally read “∼3 billion web pages” and has now been amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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Thanks to Tyler Bonnen, James Bowden, Jennifer Doudna, Lisa Dunlap, Alyosha Efros, Nicolo Fusi, Aaron Hertzmann, Hanlun Jiang, Aditi Krishnapriyan, Jitendra Malik, Sara Mostafavi, Hunter Nisonoff and Ben Recht for helpful comments on this piece as it was taking shape.

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  2. Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Listgarten, J. The perpetual motion machine of AI-generated data and the distraction of ChatGPT as a ‘scientist’. Nat Biotechnol 42, 371–373 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-02103-0

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