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The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" report, which issued a dire warning about the forces responsible for Americans' declining life expectancy, bears hallmarks of the use of artificial intelligence in its citations. That appears to have garbled citations and invented studies that underpin the report's conclusions.
Trump administration officials have been repeatedly revising and updating the report since Thursday as news outlets, beginning with NOTUS, have highlighted the discrepancies and evidence of nonexistent research.
Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Andrew Nixon said that "minor citation and formatting errors have been corrected, but the substance of the MAHA report remains the same --- a historic and transformative assessment by the federal government to understand the chronic disease epidemic afflicting our nation's children."
This is how The Washington Post, in consultation with AI experts, detected the use of artificial intelligence in the initial version of the report provided to journalists.
AIID Editor's note: For the full analysis, please visit the original source at The Washington Post.