Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI

The Trump administration’s embrace of artificial intelligence hasn’t always worked out especially well. About a month ago, for example, a State Department representative delivered a presentation at an AIDS 2026 conference and referred to a map of Africa that mislabeled multiple countries. A Reuters report noted that the image “contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools.”

The embarrassing incident was not the first of its kind. Border Patrol officials, for example, have been caught misusing ChatGPT. Around the same time, Tulsi Gabbard, then the director of national intelligence, used an AI program to determine which documents to release related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and that process did not go well.

But the Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of humiliations on this front. Last spring it produced “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again,” which cited multiple nonexistent scientific studies after staffers misused AI. Later, the Food and Drug Administration unveiled an AI tool intended to speed up drug approvals, but the tool did not work.

The list continues to grow. The Washington Post reported: