AI Health Chatbots Risk Dangerous Medical Misinformation

(Notably absent is Google, whose Gemini chatbot is one of the world's most competent and widely used AI tools, though the company did announce an update to its MedGemma medical AI model for developers.) OpenAI actively encourages users to share sensitive information like medical records, lab results, and health and wellness data from apps like Apple Health, Peloton, Weight Watchers, and MyFitnessPal with ChatGPT Health in exchange for deeper insights. It explicitly states that users' health data will be kept confidential and won't be used to train AI models, and that steps have been taken to keep data secure and private. OpenAI says ChatGPT Health conversations will also be held in a separate part of the app, with users able to view or delete Health "memories" at any time. OpenAI's assurances that it will keep users' sensitive data safe have been helped in no small way by the company launching an identical-sounding product with tighter security protocols at almost the same time as ChatGPT Health.