Take Garlic Orally, Not This Way

Do not take garlic rectally to boost your immune system or for any other health reason. This is one of the many bad pieces of advice AI health chatbots offer to people using them for medical advice.

A study published in The Lancet looked at 20 large language models (LLMs) with more than 3.4 million prompts that all contained misinformation that pulled answers from social media and real hospital discharge notes. The problem is that LLMs absorb false information along with doctor-approved information...