Health care providers have long worried about patients turning to Dr. Google for medical advice, fearing the reliability of the answers they find online. Now, a new issue is emerging: the rise of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, which can provide quick medical answers but sometimes deliver misinformation with an air of confidence.
From basic questions about HIV transmission and finding somewhere to get tested, to more specialized HIV prevention queries such as what to do if a dose of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is missed, the quality of online information is vital. Marisa Fujimoto and colleagues at the California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Centers recently examined how four widely used large language models address these varied HIV-related topics.
Read the full story by Roger Pebody at TheBodyPro.
Source : TheBodyPro
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