A Tale of ChatGPT and COVID

Taylor Nichols, MD
3 min readDec 12, 2023

I aksed ChatGPT to outline a story about the COVID pandemic, the spread of the spread of misinformation and disinformation, and the dramatic shifting of the Overton window thanks to alt-right and anti-science extremists along with credentialed contrarians.

The result is both accurate and tragic. This is the reality of what we faced trying to combat misinformation and disinformation, and how that was weaponized against the relative few of us who were committed to fighting back.

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Taylor Nichols, MD

Humanist. Emergency Medicine and AddictiEmergency + Addiction Medicine | Health policy and advocacy | Health tech and innovation