Think Twice Before Asking ChatGPT About Your Health - The Atlantic

Be careful asking chatbots about your health.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 12:33 After George Mallon had his blood drawn at a routine physical, he learned that something may be gravely wrong. The preliminary results showed he might have blood cancer. Further tests would be needed. Left in suspense, he did what so many people do these days: He opened ChatGPT. For nearly two weeks, Mallon, a 46-year-old in Liverpool, England, spent hours each day talking with the chatbot about the potential diagnosis. “It just sent me around on this crazy Ferris wheel of emotion and fear,” Mallon told me. His follow-up tests showed it wasn’t cancer after all,

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