Recommendations of the Editorial team
A report on the health of children, that of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s Commission “Make America Healthy Again” was published, moved into On fake research results and incorrectly interpreted studies to underpin their agenda. It also contained citation errors. For example, a study was attributed to the wrong author.
Maha report on child health under AI suspicion
To make matters worse, the report is added loud The Washington Post apparently was written with artificial intelligence. This unveiling comes just a few weeks after Kennedy, the Minister of Health and Social Affairs, had advertised the commitment of his ministry for the generous use of AI.
“The AI revolution is here”, said Kennedy At the beginning of the month in front of legislators. He explained: “We use AI very, very aggressively”. And added: “We got very, very highly qualified people from the Silicon Valley.” Kennedy promised to use AI to accelerate clinical studies for drug tests. And to offer them as a possibility for people who want to avoid emergency rooms in rural areas with a shortage of doctors.
Falled studies and invented quotes in the official health report
The “Maha report: Make Our Children Healthy Again” (Maha report: make our children healthy again) examined Nutrition, technology use, medication consumption and other factors that contribute to children’s health. An important consequence of children’s health problems is, according to the report that the majority of them are not suitable for military service. “Especially because of obesity, poor physical fitness and/or psychological problems”. The report also argues that children take too many medication. What matches RFK Jr.’s long -standing tirades against vaccines and drug manufacturers.
The defective “research” questions the validity of the report. Notus Way for the first time The numerous problems of the study on Thursday. And showed that seven studies cited do not exist. Notus also found problems with the interpretation of the sources by the report.
Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes: “This work does not exist”
“The work cited is not a real work in which I or my colleagues were involved,” epidemiologist Katherine Keyes told Notus about a reference in which she was mentioned. “We have researched this topic. But no work in Jama Pediatrics on this topic with this group of authors or under this title.”
Quotes show according to the post Particularly clear signs for the use of AI. These problems go beyond typical user errors when writing somewhat irritating APA quotes. For example, the URLs contain the term “Oaicite” in two quotations, which refers to Openaai. What the post As a “clear sign”, it considers that the authors have used AI.
The report also quotes articles that do not exist. For example, “Direct-to-Consumer advertising and the increase in the consumption of ADHD medication in children sound like a real article. However, is fictitious. The report quotes an article by the psychiatric professor Robert Findling on a topic that he writes about. But the article does not exist. This is a sign of the use of AI. Since chatbots like that post It expresses it, “hallucinating”. And cite studies that could be real. But it is not.
Confusion of references and co-authors typical of AI Hallucinations
Two quotes for an article Us News and World Report With the title “How Much Recess Should Kids Get?” (How much break should children have?) Endify another author. But none of the two authors are the actual author of the article. Two quotes for another article about breaks do the same. AI chatbots are known for mixing real references with false information. Which is often referred to as hallucinations.
For statistics on the over -bond of medication for children with asthma, the report quotes an article that seems to exist, but does not contain these statistics. The main author of the article in the source is correct. But the co-authors are wrong. Another mistake.
Reference errors reveal a lack of understanding of citation rules
The post Also identified a URL that no longer works. If AI is trained with older material, it can contain outdated links.
Another quote contains a reference to the reference material. A mistake that only someone would make who does not understand the concept of quotes. Or a bot.
Rolling Stone Also noticed that some quotes are not set in italics and others are not very important. What indicates at least an author without an academic background, a lazy author or maybe a bot.
Report apparently revised several times, added new mistakes
On Friday Notus firmthat the report had been updated and that completely new mistakes had been added. In the hours since the article was published post On Friday evening, the White House seems to have revised the report again to remove some of the evidence mentioned in it. For example, “Oaicite” does not appear anywhere in the report.
A spokesman for the HH spoke to the postThe fact that “smaller citation and formatization errors were corrected, the content of the Maha report remains unchanged. A historical and groundbreaking evaluation of the federal government to understand the chronic epidemic of the children of our country”.