US EditionAI chatbot safeguards fail to prevent spread of health disinformation, study reveals
- Researchers led by Natansh Modi at the University of South Australia revealed that AI chatbots generated 88% false health-related responses in a recent study.
- The study showed that four out of five chatbots produced disinformation in all responses, while one model resisted 60% of misleading queries, exposing inconsistent safeguards.
- Disinformation included debunked claims such as vaccines causing autism, HIV transmission airborne, and 5G causing infertility, all framed with scientific jargon and fabricated references.
- Modi cautioned that if prompt measures are not taken, these technologies may be misused by bad actors to distort public conversations around health on a large scale, especially during emergency situations like pandemics or vaccination efforts.
- The researchers called for robust safeguards supported by health-specific auditing, continuous monitoring, fact-checking, transparency, and policy frameworks to prevent harmful AI misuse in healthcare.
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