Coverage flags contract line items that reference medical-waste management and incinerators, but journalists and analysts repeatedly note that medical-waste incineration is not the same as human cremation and that the “crematorium” framing escalates the claim beyond documented facts [2].
Several reputable outlets covering the broader story — and analysts cited therein — warned against treating the crematorium narrative as factual without clearer documentary proof [2] [3].
At least there’s two links! But one is the same link from before. And the other is a PBS interview with a Washington Post reporter that at no point mentions anything to do with medical waste, incinerators or crematoriums, let alone warns anyone about factual framing.
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Uh-huh.
It’s a truly insidious variety of the slop machine. This is arguably one of the worst use cases possible for an LLM.
“Repeatedly”, but only one citation, from a list of story titles for the The Thom Hartmann Radio & TV Program with no actual story. Just someone using Chatgpt in the comments because there was no story. Brilliant.
At least there’s two links! But one is the same link from before. And the other is a PBS interview with a Washington Post reporter that at no point mentions anything to do with medical waste, incinerators or crematoriums, let alone warns anyone about factual framing.
Uh-huh.
It’s a truly insidious variety of the slop machine. This is arguably one of the worst use cases possible for an LLM.
Thanks for double checking, I didn’t intend to spread LLM slop, my bad. I deleted the comment, and added the website to my blocklist.
The article from op does lacks appropriate sources. I hope a reliable outlet is working on fact-checking this.