RFK Jr’s ‘MAHA’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies
RFK Jr’s ‘MAHA’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies
Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus.
The report exposes glaring scientific failures from a health secretary who earlier this week threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals.
The 73-page “Make America healthy again” report – which was commissioned by the Trump administration to examine the causes of chronic illness, and which Kennedy promoted it as “gold-standard” science backed by more than 500 citations – includes references to seven studies that appear to be entirely invented, and others that the researchers say have been mischaracterized.
Ah, written by ChatGPT then.
That's exactly what I was thinking. A human doesn't accidentally cite multiple made up studies. So these fuckers are writing government policy by saying "Hey ChatCPT, write a scientific paper with citations about how vaccines are bad."
Yeah, humans will cite real studies that don’t say what they claim (either from malice or misunderstanding) or just vaguely say ‘studies say’, not pull an entire citation out of the air.
I’m leaning towards making it illegal to use AI (generative LLM) in government work. All it can do is mislead and introduce errors.
a human might not, but worms will.
I've read three different articles (including the NOTUS one) about this, and none of the alleged "journalists" has the courage to say that these kind of errors are highly symptomatic of LLM generated text. Nobody mentions AI or LLMs even once.
It's like they're so intent on being unbiased, that they can't bring themselves to connect even the most obvious dots for people.
What happened?
Well, the government released this report with lots of weird errors, such as references to scientific research that doesn't exist.
How could that happen?
Shhhhh, no no no. We can't talk about that. We're the news media. We just throw puzzle pieces at the busy people trying to keep their underpaid jobs, raise a family, and make ends meet. We don't help them assemble the pieces into a coherent picture. That would be ludicrous.
Check for the — emdash.
Be careful about that one, though. In addition to Word, for whatever reason iPhones automatically convert “--“ to “—“ so if you’re dealing with anybody like me who marks mid-sentence breaks with double dashes out of old habit, you’re going to get false positives.
Generally in academia, this is referred to as fraud.
Publication fraud, misconduct, etc.
Tends to get you blacklisted from publishing, from research, career ending stuff.
So uh... yep, who would have guessed the administration led by a convicted criminal fraudster would do more fraud, how shocking.
Sure would be neat if some consequences actually occured for this, but uh nah looks more like we're just going full corpotheofascist... I would say we had a good run, but it was mostly bad, so I won't say that.
They're using ChatGPT and it made shit up.
[AI slop intensifies]
uh oh someone asked chatgpt for citations
Ugh! Forking nerds checking my citations! Curses!
~ somebody in his cabinet - probably
That's what's mind blowing to me about this type of stuff. It's not like this is a middle school English assignment where you might get lucky and your hung over teacher might not check your references. They're writing public policy for the entire United States! Of course someone is going to dive into your citations!
whoa. A trumptard making shit up?? SAY IT ISN'T SO!
Or, as the Trump White House calls it, "minor citation and formatting mistakes"
Weird way to say I used chatgpt
this whole administration is a fucking fraud
Doesn't matter how goofy they are; they have the stick, so their word is law. No use laughing at their stupidity when countless people will die as a result. This is the new normal for America, and things will not get better until Trump is long dead.
It's the worm babies - they're inside telling him lies. It's them controlling him like a rat inside a chef's hat. Fucking wormy bastard with the brainpower of an imbecile. What's lower than imbecile? He's that. and a fucking criminal put this brain dead piece of junky meat in charge OF AMERICA'S HEALTH AND WELL BEING.
the heroin essentially left him an empty husk, which was easily hijacked by worms and affiliate parasites.
Chalk another one up to brain worms.
Was one of them the Bible by chance? lmao