Grappling With AI and Health Misinformation

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Grappling With AI and Health Misinformation
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Although artificial intelligence can improve diagnosis, its tendency to 'hallucinate' must be recognized and addressed.

The pace of evolution in generative artificial intelligence is so rapid that keeping up and forming an opinion about it is truly challenging. AI represents one of those radical — and now inevitable — revolutions that require continuous reflection on how to amplify its benefits while minimizing its risks.

Yet, there are other potential negative consequences of these tools that are even more concerning than they are in other sectors, especially those related to their difficulty in distinguishing true from false information. The so-called hallucinations of AI can deceive even doctors if they make the mistake of using ChatGPT as a search engine. The system does not want to disappoint and fabricates plausible facts and fake bibliographic references.

There is nothing new under the sun. We have been talking about fake news and information disorder for years, especially since the advent of the internet and social media.

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