Ian Kirk
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Ian Kirk
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The views expressed here are not necessarily my own
I think a very high vaccination coverage rate (95% of population) is needed to prevent outbreaks.

The 88% confidence in this research is not high enough and it's for the entire population. Parents of young children are more distrustful than older people.

Link to parental views here ⬇️
Parents’ confidence in childhood vaccine effectiveness, safety testing and schedule
Democratic parents are more likely than Republican parents to have high confidence in childhood vaccines’ effectiveness, safety testing and schedule.
www.pewresearch.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Very nice of you to take the time to reply. Thanks
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Is that another rival, very similar tree looming over the horizon?

Are you using these for political commentree?
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Half my customers are unhappy with my product. So is the other half. I'm sure it's fine.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Absolutely. Pro tier only has context of 32000 tokens so it will soon start summarising the document you shared rather than working with the original.

NotebookLM might be an alternative. It's Gemini so maybe not as good but it keeps whole documents as context and has bigger chat window too
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Dunno Doug, looks like your working relationship with ChatGPT is breaking down.

It seems to be one exchange away from saying, "OK I may hallucinate but at least I know what 'final' means!"
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's not as hard as it sounds. You or a colleague could probably vibe code their way through each of these approaches.

I'd be happy to talk you through how I would do but there many more better qualified people here and elsewhere who might do a better job.
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Additionally, you could write a simple script to use a model to identify citations and statistics search online for them as an additional check to help exclude papers with fake or hallucinated evidence.
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
So the options I suggest trying might be better on entire papers instead of abstracts
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
But I think there might be another issue, which is that genuine human authors often struggle to write good abstracts and so are tempted by AI summarisation just for that part of their work.

Detecting AI in abstracts might find those people and unfairly lump them in with real cheaters
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Simply asking chat won't work, but AI/ML might:

Two options:
- use a reasoning/code executing model to look for AI 'tells/clichés' in a text and award a score with commentary
- since you have an archive, train your own domain-specific model on AI vs human-made texts so it can spot the differences
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Some of these have to be coded messages between spies
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
What about this guy?
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This disparity between the kinds of messages received on phone apps compared with the ones seen in the living room partly explains the genuine (but appalling) strength of (dreadful, racist) emotion felt by Reform.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Generative AI will let advertisers change the ethnicity of people in their ads to personalise the identity, preferences and prejudices of individual people - audiences of one rather than one million.

We saw Brexit campaign messages targeted at specific ethnic groups. Now the casting can change too.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A white supremacist will see a huge number of targeted social communications that will show positive images of white people and negative images of black people (or just no black people at all).
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I mentioned that TV ads are mass media. This is important. We are shifting away from the era of expensive short films that are seen by millions.

People's advertising diet is a mix of increasingly highly targeted online comms and then a few mass-market ads on TV.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM