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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 3:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

> The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto.

I think that this kind of thing has been happening for decades. I'm hoping that these types of things start getting discovered, now that advocacy orgs can do things like run an LLM on a huge pile of old records, reports, and news articles.


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CGMthrowawaytoday at 4:28 PM

Many such cases. Aspartame, BPA, tobacco, Paxil (paroxetine), neonics (pesticide) all have documented trails of how researchers and policy makers were working for the industry and often hiding the fact

observationisttoday at 4:11 PM

Can even do things like stylometric analysis, and make good predictions about the authorship of any particular line or paragraph or paper. Semantic search and RAG aren't the only thing you can do with a high quality vector database system.