News-Medical.Net October 9, 2024
New research from the University of Kansas Life Span Institute highlights a key vulnerability to misinformation generated by artificial intelligence and a potential model to combat it.
The study, appearing in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, reveals parents seeking health care information for their children trust AI more than health care professionals when the author is unknown, and parents also rate AI generated text as credible, moral and trustworthy.
When we began this research, it was right after ChatGPT first launched -; we had concerns about how parents would use this new, easy method to gather health information for their children. Parents often turn to the internet for advice, so we wanted to understand what using ChatGPT would look...