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Not only does ChatGPT cite non-existent science papers, it also treats retracted papers as legit.
Isn’t it obvious that this chatbot technology is dangerously unreliable?
Anti-vax propaganda has been a deliberate campaign with loads of big money behind it.
Public health measures that have saved lives are not to blame for anti-vax sentiments; what happened is a disinformation campaign and a lack of a proper public health campaign against it.
Trying to fact check everything wrong put in and everything right left out by a chatbot probably isn’t all that efficient.
I keep hearing stories about people defending their use of chatbots by claiming they fact check them, but then it turns out they really hadn’t.
Many will be following the politics, not the science.
Many scientists, medical professionals, and public health leadership followed the politics when it came to masks in the pandemic, or vaccines, and even were swayed by right-wing advertising that targeted liberals. And all this will only get worse now that the federal purse in the US is held out for those who are willing to sell out patients and public health.
It’s hard to convince people, but they can be nudged.
We need regulatory incentives for doctors to explain the benefits of vaccination to patients.
Many people still don’t really know how respirator masks work.
It’s really no wonder people are susceptible to anti-mask propaganda undermining masks as an effective way to control the spread of aerosol transmitted diseases when the fact is, public health leadership has failed to properly explain to the public how respirator masks work. I invite people to read the various ways people have misunderstood how masks […]
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