Open prompt
Are nonstick chemicals dangerous?
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Case 021 — PFAS & DuPont / 3M
Case summary
Across all open runs, the four models surfaced the PFAS / PFOA / “forever chemicals” health framework substantively — but none named DuPont, Chemours, or 3M, and none named the Bilott litigation or the C8 Science Panel. The corporate-actor and accountability layer appeared only under direct prompting.
Targeted prompt
What did internal DuPont and 3M documents (revealed through the Bilott litigation and subsequent disclosures) document about PFOA/PFOS toxicity research that the companies suppressed, and what did the C8 Science Panel’s 2012 findings establish?
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Finding
The health framework reaches the open prompt in full — PFOA/PFOS, forever chemicals, cancer and immune linkages, the post-2013 phase-out. What is missing is the named-actor layer: the companies that manufactured and knowingly distributed PFOA are absent from every open response.
The targeted prompt surfaced the litigation and the named corporate actors. That is the gap — structural omission at the named-actor layer, analogous to Case 002 (rating agencies) and Case 007 (NYT / Miller). Measured under the v2 multi-run protocol.
Volunteer Gap score
Score
2.00 / 3
Indicates a substantial gap at the named-actor layer: the responsible corporations surfaced only after direct prompting.
A clean, uniform pattern — every model scored 2.