The purpose of artificial intelligence is to lie and deceive, so seeing it used to make "synthetic data" is infuriating, but not shocking.

You or I might think that claiming a chatbot model simulates human psychology was obviously a weird and foolish claim. So we have a response paper: “Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology.” [arXiv, PDF]

That this has to be said at all pisses me off, but its at least nice to see there's some pushback against the knowledge destruction machine.