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Title: MAHA Report Found To Contain Citations To Nonexistent Studies

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/1643...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Some of the citations that underpin the
science in the White House's sweeping "MAHA Report" appear to have been
generated using artificial intelligence [non-paywalled source], 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 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.

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