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Photo: Amilcar Orfali
Photo: Amilcar Orfali (Getty Images)

Okay, okay—maybe scientists themselves may not be replaced, but science writing could be automated in the near future. That’s according to a recent study from Northwestern University, which claims that even scientists themselves couldn’t often tell the different between scientific abstracts written by humans and those written by ChatGPT. The study showed that humans could only correctly deduce whether a human or robot wrote the abstracts about 68 percent of the time. If this were a science test, that would be a D!