How could you ... discover anything new? Learn anything?
The whole point of research is when it surprises you. When they user keeps doing something you didn't expect and you don't know why.
How could AI ever ever ever produce this most rare but also most valuable of data?
All it can do is make results that ... look like other results, that say what you expect them to say. How do people keep missing the point of what LLMs can and CAN NOT do?