The study was designed to challenge ChatGPT using questions most frequently received by a WHO collaborating center focused on vaccine safety. The researchers asked the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot the top 50 most frequently asked COVID-19 vaccine questions. Researchers at the center have been exploring myths around vaccine safety and medical situations that are falsely believed to be a reason not to get vaccinated. ChatGPT provided correct answers to queries that arose from genuine vaccine myths, and to those considered in clinical recommendation guidelines to be false or true contraindications. The WHO Collaborating Center for Vaccine Safety at the University of Santiago de Compostela (WHO-CC VSS; Spain) has been addressing myths and false contraindications to vaccination.

Source: New York Times September 04, 2023 21:01 UTC