[Hercuros]

The data would still be awful, and people would pay less attention to the study because it’s not a priori surprising that ChatGPT would write worse poetry than the most celebrated poets in history.

If I use bad data to conclude that “Java is faster than C++ in most cases” you can be sure it will receive a lot more attention than if I reached the opposite conclusion based on similarly bad data.

[ykonstant]

> The data would still be awful, and people would pay less attention to the study because it’s not a priori surprising that ChatGPT would write worse poetry than the most celebrated poets in history.

[emphasis mine] You've inadvertently made the poster's point for them. You have written Spivak's "I knew it" reaction, just phrased more glibly.