zeroed in on the full-sentence conversational AI service known as ChatGPT, which launched to great fanfare last November.
Other times, incorrect recommendations were more subtle—for instance, including some, but not all, parts of a treatment regimen, such as recommending surgery alone, when standard treatment also includes radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, Bitterman said. At the same time, all responses were tethered to a blanket warning that patients should not make any health care decisions based on the data provided without first consulting a doctor.
"The results were encouraging in the sense that there was very little misinformation, because that was our biggest concern going in," said study author Dr. Abdo Kabarriti, chief of urology at South Brooklyn Health in New York City.Basically the chatbots provided information at a college reading level, while the average consumer reads about roughly the sixth-grade level, Kabarriti said.