Study finds ChatGPT to be pretty accurate for common allergy myths

USA: In a new study, ChatGPT was asked to rate 10 common allergy myths, and it judged their accuracy correctly 91% of the time. The study findings were presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) Annual Scientific Meeting in Anaheim, California.
Artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT are increasingly being used in many different professions, and medicine is not an exception.
“We searched the PubMed and Google Scholar databases to identify all articles on common allergy myths between 2000-2023,” says Ricardo Estrada-Mendizabal, MD, ACAAI member and lead author of the study. “Our goal was to assess the accuracy of ChatGPT in correctly identifying common allergy myths. We know allergy and asthma patients are constantly exposed to misinformation on the internet. We thought that the surge of public language models could represent a bigger threat to misinformation spread, especially because ChatGPT is unable to provide references.”
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