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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...

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.

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.

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...

ahHhHhH why do they put trade groups on committees like this!