cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30459966
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which decried America’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs.
Kennedy’s wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not actually exist.
Asked about the report’s problems, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report will be updated.
NOTUS reported on Thursday morning that seven of the more than 500 studies cited in the report did not appear to have ever been published. An author of one study confirmed that while she conducted research on the topics of anxiety in children, she never authored the report listed. Some studies were also misinterpreted in the MAHA report.
And no mention anywhere in the article that these kind of errors are symptomatic of LLM generated text.
When is the media going to stop dancing around shit in order to appear unbiased and start doing their job as the Fourth Estate by calling out obvious horseshit?
ETA: Same goes for the original article that the above linked article references. Listing lots of errors that are so ridiculous, that they’re either AI/LLM generated, or somebody intentionally inserting errors to make it look like the report was LLM generated.
And yet,even that article dances around the obvious issue without apparently having the simple courage to just say, “These kinds of errors are highly symptomatic of AI/LLM generated text.”