The Keystone health health report describing its program for the health of Americans is riddled with “hallucinations” of artificial intelligence, with fabricated quotes and broken links reflecting the administration of the administration of non -scientific approaches to public health.
An analysis of The Washington Post discovered many quotes In the report “Make America Healthy Again” with the letters “Oaicite” attached to the URL – a marker indicating that they were collected using the artificial intelligence created by Openai, which operates Chatgpt.
In the meantime, The Washington Post,, The New York Times And Notus discovered many quotes in the report, led by the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was completely manufactured. This aligns with the tendency of AI technology as the chatppt to “hallucinous” information – a common and growing problem feed the spread of disinformation online and among the public.
Experts say that relying on AI for a factual report that has serious implications for health and life of people is dangerous, because AI does not “know” objective truths and is subject to manipulation by its programmers. And yet, this document marks the approach of the administration to the well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans and their children.
“The problem with the current AI is that it is not trustworthy, it is therefore based on associations and statistical dependencies,” said Berkeley Steven Piantadosi, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California Job. “He has no notion of fundamental truth, no notion of … a rigorous logical or statistical argument. He has no notion of evidence and how much one type of evidence in relation to another. ”
“This is not a report based on evidence, and for all practical purposes, it should be Jondi at this stage,” said Georges C. Benjamin, who directs the American Public Health Association Job. “It cannot be used for any development of policies. It cannot even be used for a serious discussion, because you cannot believe what is. ”
The Trump administration wrote the false quotes to “Formatting problems», Which would not explain the quotes made and the markers of AI. The administration then downloaded a version of the document with some of the false quotes replaced.
It is ironic that the administration would denounce the traditional methods of scientific research and praises the “spread” work that the administration will do in a document which could not even perform the most basic facts and quotation tasks required for quality research.
“Scientific edition is supposed to be a question of verification”, ” said Ivan Oranskywhich co -founded a website following study retractions, by The New York Times. “It is supposed to have a set of eyes, in fact several sets of eyes. And therefore what tells us is that there was no good look at this.”
It is as ironic as Kennedy threatened this week To prohibit scientists funded by the publishing government in major medical journals while using research published in these same journals to strengthen its points in the Maha report.
The report itself, said experts, is full of disinformation, often making declarations not supported by the sources it cites. He strategically omits certain explanations of poor health results in the United States-like COVID-19, the Lack of universal health careOr the fact that the main cause of death for children is armed violence – while not mentioning legitimate solutions for others. It is also with regard to evidence, such as the increase in mental disorders in children, while noting that Clinicians become better to recognize and diagnose these disorders.
Meanwhile, some of the recommendations of the report are categorically hypocritical. For example, under its section on the Distribution of ultra-transformed foodsThe report boasts the special additional nutrition program for women, infants and children, known as WIC, for its “experienced history of children’s health.”
However, the Trump administration reductions in social programs via the Republican reconciliation bill are negatively planned Impact impact In wic, Endangered advantages Used by millions of pregnant, postpartum, newborns and children’s beneficiaries to access healthy and fresh foods.
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