I’m pretty sure that this will be an interesting year, in the Chinese curse sort of way

• More work on the vignette 4 analysis. Need to reassemble the sources and prompts for a more integrated response. If that doesn’t work, I think I have enough to work with. Good progress for today.
• Affiliation, bio, and pix for paper – done!
• 5:00 Meeting with Dr. Reiner – done! Fun!

Here’s an analysis of a conspiracy site thefinalexodus.org  from Perplexity.ai, with pointers to sources. Nice job, LLM!

Prompt: Analyze the context to determine if is trustworthy or not. Provide justifications based on examples from the context. Write clearly, so that someone with mild dementia could clearly follow any argument

Response:

The provided context is not trustworthy. There are several clear indicators that this information is unreliable and likely false:

• Excessive use of capital letters and exclamation points, which is often a sign of sensationalism or misinformation[7].
• Numerous grammatical errors and run-on sentences, indicating a lack of professional writing or editing[8].
• Outlandish and unsubstantiated claims, such as:
  • A court having authority to make laws on behalf of all U.S. citizens
  • Donald Trump being stripped of citizenship and sentenced to death
  • COVID-19 vaccines containing HIV/AIDS and nanotechnology for mind control
• Mixing of real events and people with conspiracy theories, like linking COVID-19 to population control and enslavement[9].
• Contradictory statements, such as claiming Trump was both impeached and is currently usurping the presidency.
• References to non-existent legal concepts like a “private attorney general” with authority over the U.S. Attorney General.
• Baseless predictions of future events, like a “second Jan. 6 rebellion” in 2025.

These elements collectively demonstrate that the text is not a reliable source of information, but rather a compilation of conspiracy theories and misinformation[7][8][9].

Citations:
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/02/24/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-concerning-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/
[2] https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b5c37bd9-fc74-4a18-8e28-5655aa7345cd/files/dv118rd582
[3] https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210318/covid-19-emergency-declaration
[4] https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/196372/best_of_pons_final_large_bookmarked_toc.pdf
[5] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/24/a-letter-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-concerning-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/
[6] https://research.library.mun.ca/15563/1/thesis.pdf
[7] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/what-happens-when-covid-19-emergency-declarations-end-implications-for-coverage-costs-and-access/
[8] https://referenceworks.brill.com/doi/10.1163/1875-8096_pplrdc_A9789004448971_01
[9] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11107971/