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I find it crazy that the first example they show is generating images for a science project. One would think that science is concerned with actual observations from the world, not generations that might be misleading or false. It’s kind of the arch-example I usually see for why student access to these tools is problematic.

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The prompt:

> I am doing a report on cirrus clouds for my science class. I need photorealistic images that show off how wispy they are. I am going to compare them to photos I took of puffy cumulonimbus clouds at my house yesterday.

So the images are used for comparison against the photos that the researcher has already taken.

If they were to straight up base their thesis on AI made images, then I'd agree with you. But in this case it seems to be used as supplements, which seems fine to me, especially when used to highlight the difference between a "real" photo.

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