The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse

It came to light this week that a new government report from the “Make America Healthy Again” Commission led by Robert F Kennedy Jr. contained botched citations for scientific papers that didn’t exist. This is almost certainly a sign that some form of generative AI was involved to draft a very consequential piece of medical agenda-setting, coming out of the US’s top health agency, the Department of Health and Human Services.

Now, some additional reporting suggests that the paper’s flaws go…