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Can you trust AI for health advice?
AI-created health information is widely used
Why you can't always trust AI
1. Diagnosing and treating illness is too complex for a machine
2. AI can be wrong, even when it sounds confident
3. AI-created information may be biased
4. AI spreads misinformation
5. People and AI don't communicate well together
How to use AI more safely and effectively
The bottom line
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Why you can't always trust AI
1. Diagnosing and treating illness is too complex for a machine
2. AI can be wrong, even when it sounds confident
3. AI-created information may be biased
4. AI spreads misinformation
5. People and AI don't communicate well together
How to use AI more safely and effectively
The bottom line
Content
4. AI spreads misinformation
AI doesn't know what's true and what's not. It may pull answers from flawed or misleading sources it finds online. When people see alarming health stories online, they often forward or repost them — even if they know the information may not be true. As false information spreads, there’s more of it online. AI may then repeat that false information.
