Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Ugh -- agreed to speak to a journalist about whether people (actually women in particular, because it's a women's magazine type publication) should use chatbots for health information. I said in no uncertain terms that they should not, but they found someone else to quote too saying it could be beneficial blah blah blah. And then the article ends with a quote from me saying "Don't do this" followed by a "quote" from ChatGPT --- i.e. more synthetic text published as news. Grr.
Johannes@emilymbender
Indeed, the idea of people consulting chatbots for medical advice is very concerning. Meta’s Galactica invented medications, clinical trials and symptoms for nonexistent diseases. Most problematically, it smoothly embedded disinformation into correct statements, all in the writing style of reliable sources. For example, for colorectal cancer subtype survival chances it “cited” appropriate academic publications but gave completely wrong numbers - difficult to check for a layperson.
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