Students and researchers send their own paper to plagiarism checker to look for "real" and unintended flags before actually submitting the papers, and make revisions accordingly. This is a known, standard practice that is widely accepted.
And let's say someone modifies their faked lab results so that no AI can detect any evidence of photoshopping images. Their results get published. Well, nobody will be able to reproduce their work (unless other people also publish fraudulent work from there), and fellow researchers will raise questions, like, a lot of them. Also, guess what, even today, badly photoshopped results often don't get caught for a few years, and in hindsight that's just some low effort image manipulation -- copying a part of image and paste it elsewhere.
I doubt any of this changes anything. There is a lot of competition in academia, and depending on the field, things may move very fast. Getting away with AI detection of fraudulent work likely doesn't give anyone enough advantage to survive in a competitive field.
And let's say someone modifies their faked lab results so that no AI can detect any evidence of photoshopping images. Their results get published. Well, nobody will be able to reproduce their work (unless other people also publish fraudulent work from there), and fellow researchers will raise questions, like, a lot of them. Also, guess what, even today, badly photoshopped results often don't get caught for a few years, and in hindsight that's just some low effort image manipulation -- copying a part of image and paste it elsewhere.
I doubt any of this changes anything. There is a lot of competition in academia, and depending on the field, things may move very fast. Getting away with AI detection of fraudulent work likely doesn't give anyone enough advantage to survive in a competitive field.