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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Melissa Davey Medical editor

‘Alarming’: convincing AI vaccine and vaping disinformation generated by Australian researchers

Silhouette of a female nurse in PPE preparing a syringe
Researchers easily sidestepped AI safeguards to generate disinformation blogposts on vaccines and vaping. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/EPA

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to generate more than 100 blogposts of health disinformation in multiple languages, an “alarming” experiment that has prompted them to call for stronger industry accountability.

Artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT contain safeguards that stop it from responding to prompts about illegal or harmful activities, such as how to buy illicit drugs.

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