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   John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 22:27:15 JST John Mark Ockerbloom

   The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" report cites papers that appear not to exist:

   "Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed... as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. When NOTUS reached out to her... she was surprised to hear of the citation. She does study mental health and substance use, she said. But she didn’t write the paper listed."

   NOTUS couldn't find the paper in the cited journal, and I've verified the claimed DOI doesn't resolve: https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

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     John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 22:27:14 JST John Mark Ockerbloom

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     While I can't say for sure at this point how the report was written, the fabrication of nonexistent papers (as well as the citation of actual papers for claims they don't support) is a common behavior of "AI" large language model-based text generators. (Such applications can be very good at outputting convincing-sounding text, but cannot be considered reliable or scientifically supportable.)

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 00:33:05 JST Infoseepage

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     @JMarkOckerbloom What do you want to bet they used an LLM to draft the report and it hallucinated a bunch of nonsense?