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Dulcinea

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Fri May 30, 2025, 12:08 PM May 30

White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say

(Washington Post) Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday.

Of the 522 footnotes to scientific research in an initial version of the report sent to The Washington Post, at least 37 appear multiple times, according to a review of the report by The Washington Post. Other citations include the wrong author, and several studies cited by the extensive health report do not exist at all, a fact first reported by the online news outlet NOTUS on Thursday morning.

Some references include “oaicite” attached to URLs - a definitive sign that the research was collected using artificial intelligence. The presence of “oaicite” is a marker indicating use of OpenAI, a U.S. artificial intelligence company.

A common hallmark of AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, is unusually repetitive content that does not sound human or is inaccurate -as well as the tendency to “hallucinate” studies or answers that appear to make sense but are not real.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-maha-report-may-012345295.html

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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say (Original Post) Dulcinea May 30 OP
Somebody or something was clearly hallucinating... SheltieLover May 30 #1
In other words, no living person bothered to actually read the report before they published it FakeNoose May 30 #2

FakeNoose

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2. In other words, no living person bothered to actually read the report before they published it
Fri May 30, 2025, 12:53 PM
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