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Yikes...the National Fire Sprinkler Association published a blog post in 2025 about Maryland’s 2024 Fire Fatality Report that appears to have been written with ChatGPT and, as far as I can tell, hallucinated some major findings nfsa.org/2025/07/29/m...

nfsa.orgMaryland Leads by Example: What 16 Years of Fire Data and 20 Years of National Research Say About Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers - National Fire Sprinkler AssociationWhat 16 Years of Fire Data and 20 Years of National Research Say About Residential Automatic Fire Sprinklers

11/10/26, 2:19 am10 reposts107 likes

randomperson Fire Alarms

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AI slop at its finest. No, I'm never calling it "super intelligence".

Joe Fish

@sadbusdriver.bsky.social

lol

Stephen Jacob Smith

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The ChatGPT part is easy enough: Pangram says it's 52% written by AI, and the text bears telltale signs – tons of emojis and bolding.

Stephen Jacob Smith

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Then there are very specific quantitative claims supposedly sourced for the 2024 Maryland Fire Fatality Report. The report is not linked at all, but here it is: firemarshal.maryland.gov/media/140. These two claims (which Pangram says are AI-generated text), at least, are nowhere to be found in it.

Joe Fish

@sadbusdriver.bsky.social

I wonder if they’re offloading this stuff to their proprietary AI nfsa.org/2025/09/09/a...

nfsa.orgAI in the Fire Sprinkler World: Why ChatEOD Outperforms Generic AI Tools - National Fire Sprinkler AssociationChatEOD outperforms all AI platforms currently available.

Stephen Jacob Smith

@stephenjacobsmith.com

I found while writing something in which I claim that the MD and CA single-family sprinkler mandates have never really been retrospectively analyzed for effectiveness. I was pretty sure that I would've seen a study if it existed, but to check that, I asked Claude. It pointed me to this "analysis."

Stephen Jacob Smith

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NFSA is not a small or irrelevant trade group. They are one of the most powerful three industry interests in codes (along with timber and single-family homebuilders). They often sit on single-stair advisory groups, e.g., as directed by Massachusetts' governor: www.mass.gov/doc/eo-651/d...