I mean obviously there’s fascism going on, but given this admin is it more likely that they intentionally fabricated a false study by this epidemiologist or that it’s just an unchecked reference hallucinated by an AI chatbot told to write something in support of his position? Basically is this citation purely malevolence or stupidity in the service of greater malevolence?
Depends on whether you take the mistake at face value or see it as yet another symptom of a disease taking root in the context of the whole administration’s war against truth and accountability. But on its own it would muddy the waters to call it fascism.
I mean obviously there’s fascism going on, but given this admin is it more likely that they intentionally fabricated a false study by this epidemiologist or that it’s just an unchecked reference hallucinated by an AI chatbot told to write something in support of his position? Basically is this citation purely malevolence or stupidity in the service of greater malevolence?
Depends on whether you take the mistake at face value or see it as yet another symptom of a disease taking root in the context of the whole administration’s war against truth and accountability. But on its own it would muddy the waters to call it fascism.