Republicans on the committee were also concerned by the impact of large language models that make it easier and quicker for these fraudulent businesses to mass-produce fake scientific content, flooding the literature with ‘AI slop’. “When bad science gets published, it wastes taxpayer dollars, misleads policymakers, and can even put public health at risk,” said representative Brian Babin, a Republican from Texas who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Republicans at large, and this administration in particular don’t give a damn about facts or science, relying on emotion and indignant moral outrage to guide their desicions.