

Sure, if you designed a poll like you describe, it would have problems. But there are well studied ways of designing polls so the result is truly representative. There’s a whole science of this, and professional polls done in good faith will be designed to avoid these kinds of issues.
The same people who do everything they can to obstruct actual science, including research into vaccines and other medicines. ChatGPT can surely do what actual scientists and experienced health professionals can do. After all, ChatGPT can predict what word a person is likely to say next, so do a convincing impression of someone who knows about medicine. It’s probably no coincidence that many of these people are grifters in their own right, and those who aren’t are suckers for grifters. They have basic problems appreciating the difference between real and fake.