The Health Misinformation Monitor: AI Chatbots as Health Information Sources

AI chatbots are becoming more accurate and reliable in handling health misinformation, with developers training AI models on larger datasets to improve cross-referencing across multiple sources. Studies of chatbots Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot and ChatGPT show that they can correctly identify false claims, often highlighting the complexity of the issue. While they’re not perfect, and sometimes provide misleading information or miss context, AI chatbots can serve as a useful starting point for health information.