LLMMedium
Federal 'Make America Healthy Again' Report Released with Multiple Reportedly Erroneous and Unverifiable Citations
- Occurred
- May 22, 2025
- Published
- May 30, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The federal "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) report, released under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., included hundreds of citations, some of which were reportedly nonexistent or erroneous. Analysts reportedly identified markers consistent with AI-generated text, such as repeated entries, nonexistent studies, and URLs containing "oaicite," suggesting use of tools like ChatGPT.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
Harmed parties
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Scientific rigor
- Academic integrity
- General public
Tags
- citations
- hallucination
- government document
- citation fabrication
- large language model
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
- policy misinformation
- Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)
- LLM hallucination
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Report alleges AI-generated text and hallucinated citations in federal health report.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8