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Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real medical journals, Australian researchers have found.

Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be easily deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high volumes, they warned in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

“If a technology is vulnerable to misuse, malicious actors will inevitably attempt to exploit it - whether for financial gain or to cause harm,” said senior study author Ashley Hopkins of Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health in Adelaide.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (9 children)

There should be a series of AI agents in place when a GPT is used. The agents intake the query and review the output before sending it off to the user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

what makes the checker models any more accurate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Possibly, reverse motivation - the training goal of such an agent would not be nice and smooth output, but shooting down misinformation.

But I have serious doubts about whether all of that is feasible, given the computational cost of running large language models.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

how does that stop the checker model from "hallucinating" a "yep, this is fine" when it should have said "nah, this is wrong"

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