RFK Jr.’s health report shows how AI slips fake studies into research
The authors of the “Make America Healthy Again” report issued by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted it as a landmark assessment providing “common scientific basis” to shape health policy.
But that “scientific basis” appeared to have errors generated by a likely culprit: generative artificial intelligence.
At least seven of the report’s citations were problematic, as NOTUS first reported. Four contained titles of papers that don’t exist, and three mischaracterized the articles’ findings.
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