Hard not to draw parallels with Deepmind’s GNoME project which found millions of new “materials” most of which turned out to already exist or be garbage basically.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11044265/
The common thread is asking humans to do the verification work, which is the hard part.
>most of which turned out to already exist
And if you came up with a model that discovered them without previous knowledge of them that's a pretty amazing tool. Huge numbers of materials are sat on by companies and little to nothing is published on them.