ECP NetHappenings News for this morning

ECP NetHappenings News for this morning

Trump surrendering tonight’s Q&A to 30 minutes of his fave songs while standing on stage, awkwardly conducting at times, echoes MANY instances of cultic leaders who, exhausted, ill, and at the end of their cognitive rope, outsource their emotional dominance subroutines…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1846018161767813122.html

Trump channels Hitler with “enemy within” remarks; here’s a quote from 1939
Trump now promises to send the military against his political rivals
and immigrants — “the enemy within” are his words. His hero Adolf
Hitler had a similar plan, using the same words, in 1939:
“I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New
Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for
individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers
shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the
foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the
certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are
still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within.
Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish
exploitation and racial degeneration.”

Hacking ChatGPT by Planting False Memories into Its Data

More on My AI and Democracy Book

Why a House Cat Is Smarter Than The Best A.I.

stay safe!!!

ECP NetHappenings Just start out saying Trump is out on Bail!

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Yes we forget, so just start saying
Trump is out on Bail…..

Trump didn’t pay the bus people in advance as agreed. The busses brought them in. He got his photo op. He got on his plane. Then he left his dopes to die. That’s his plan for America.
Coachella rally refused to return to collect the stranded attendees after Team Trump ignored their repeated requests for payment.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Fox News just admitted Donald Trump’s economic plans would add thousands of dollars in expenses for ordinary Americans and potentially cause a recession.

Donald Trump just promised Border Patrol Employees a 10% raise and a $10,000 retention BONUS if he is elected. Now, you and I know how much his promises to do something beneficial to others are worth: ZERO. However, people who still support him operate under the illusion.

The conspiracy-driven far-right media producer arrested with guns outside Trump’s rally over this past weekend had spoken with Ivan Raiklin less than two weeks earlier about Raiklin’s “war-gamed” response to Trump’s assassination.

It’s almost been two weeks since hundreds of GQP lawmakers were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. Brace. This will get very ugly for the Republican Party whenever the RICO charges are announced.
No Quarter! #GQP #TRE45ON
The Tennessee Holler
TN HOUR @TheTNH011er

UPDATE: A source tells us a bunch of Republican reps and Capitol Hill lobbyists have now received subpoenas, and a lot of folks are nervous.
This comes after Rep. Windle just got paid a visit by U.S. Marshals, seemingly in relation to the Cothren/Casada trial.
The Cothren/Casada trial, involving former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, is a federal bribery and kickback case.

Donald Trump is UNFIT to be president. The 78 y. old & oldest nominee ever, is clinically unwell. He’s been progressively psychopathic; it shows in each of appearances.

There has never been a time in history when the people who ban books are the good guys.

Alex Jones got a big Bitcoin donation this week. Will his victims get that money?

This is horrifying! Zelensky confirms that North Korean soldiers have arrived in Ukraine to help the Russian Army in their efforts to break through Ukraine’s defensive lines.

You mean some attorneys aren’t really attorneys, they just represent organized crime interests?
oh gosh wait until the missouri supreme court “finds out” about this

A Bank Regulator Provides a Frightening Look at the Trading Casino Jamie Dimon Has Built Inside His Federally-Insured Bank
On September 24, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities for the second quarter of this year.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/10/a-bank-regulator-provides-a-frightening-look-at-the-trading-casino-jamie-dimon-has-built-inside-his-federally-insured-bank/

ASCII Smuggling!
Great article on how LLMs can craft invisible text, and decode hidden secrets and instructions.
Also, can you find the hidden secret in the article?
AI chatbots can read and write invisible text, creating an ideal covert channel
“The issue is they’re not fixing it at the model level, so every application that gets developed has to think about this or it’s going to be vulnerable. And that makes it very similar to things like cross-site scripting and SQL injection” #ethics #AI #LLMs #cybersec #tech

Bloomberg News Writes Puff Pieces on Jamie Dimon While Its Parent Does Business Deals with the Bank He Heads
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase
For years now, we have observed the digital front page of Bloomberg News
treating JPMorgan Chase’s Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, as the wise,
venerable statesman of Wall Street. (See here, here, and here for a quick
background.)

Over an hour later and in the Villages the line to drop off mail ballots and vote for @KamalaforFL goes back a mile.

In 22 days, Americans are going to make history by sending Kamala Harris to the White House. And, next year, with a Democratic House, we will codify Roe into federal law.

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ECP NetHappenings An Army of Ordinary People

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An army of ordinary people won’t stand for Trump winning.  They know what happened and keeps happening.
I’m an ordinary person. I won’t stand for this.
Trump and his hoax of a #GOP  can no longer be considered anything but a fascist nazi party and they will get voted out! Voted out!
Ordinary people will step up and vote all those fuckers out.
#Russians, #Chinese #communists will all go down because regular ordinary people will vote in this election.

Teen Voting March in Ohio organized a march to the polls with the high school band for first-time voters who are 18 or about to turn 18. Every high school around the country should do this too. So amazing.

In 22 days we’re voting for the candidate who never attended Jeffrey Epstein’s parties, You?

D. Vance just told the NYT it’s the Republican party’s plan to prohibit women & girls from traveling across state lines w/o first taking a pregnancy test. Can’t believe we’re having these sorts of conversations in 2024 ffs!! VOTE Ladies, they plan to control where we travel.

Did you know that Fascism started in Italy as a decentralized militia movement? The National Guard’s report of “armed militia” out “hunting FEMA” prompts the relocation of North Carolina hurricane recovery officials.

Kamala Harris’s campaign says she will ensure crypto investors “benefit from a regulatory framework so that Black men and others…in this market are protected.” Presidential candidate Kamala Harris to give more details on crypto policies today: NPR 

We should ALL be sure to watch “The Apprentice” movie before Election Day.

The Media Has Three Weeks to Learn How to Tell the Truth About Trump. Is it “news” that he wants to round up 20 million people? If not, something is wrong with how we define “news.”

Harris called Trump “too weak and unstable” for the job.

Sheldon Whitehouse: It’s been a few days since I published my report on the 2018 Kavanaugh investigation. This is a job for Chuck Schumer, where is he? This is a bombshell revelation: the WHITE HOUSE was directing an FBI investigation. he confirmation involved CRIMINAL coverup. No one is above the law. Everyone should be fighting for Justice. Lives depend on it. 3x in 5 yrs, Sen Whitehouse asked FBI for details. Every time given the run-around by Wray. It’s not rocket science.

Robert Reich: A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.
This is what oligarchy looks like.

General Mills just paid a $300 million dividend to investors, bought back $150 million in stock to enrich execs and investors and pays its CEO $16 million. It makes $2.1 billion a year in profit.
It is raising prices on cereals 20% and blaming “inflation”.

TD Bank fined $3 billion for enabling drug cartel money laundering, the largest penalty of its kind in U.S. history. The fact that the bank could still exist after paying the fine means money laundering is legal for anyone who can afford to do it.

Elon Musk Gave Tens of Millions to Republican Causes Far Earlier Than Previously Known

‘Sleeper agent’ bots on X fuel US election misinformation, study says

MUSK IS A LIAR The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

ECP NetHappenings NYT proves Musk-Twitter-Trump election interference

Don’t ditch your human GP for Dr Chatbot quite yet
We shouldn’t rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for accurate and safe information about medications, because some of the information AI provides can be wrong or potentially harmful, according to German and Belgian researchers. They asked Bing Copilot – Microsoft’s search engine and chatbot – 10 frequently asked questions about America’s 50 most commonly prescribed drugs, generating 500 answers. They assessed these for readability, completeness, and accuracy, finding the overall average score for readability meant a medical degree would be required to understand many of them. Even the simplest answers required a secondary school education reading level, the authors say.  For completeness of information provided, AI answers had an average score of 77% complete, with the worst only 23% complete. For accuracy, AI answers didn’t match established medical knowledge in 24% of cases, and 3% of answers were completely wrong. Only 54% of answers agreed with the scientific consensus, the experts say. In terms of potential harm to patients, 42% of AI answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm. Only around a third (36%) were considered harmless, the authors say. Despite the potential of AI, it is still crucial for patients to consult their human healthcare professionals, the experts conclude.

Lawyers Should Not Assist Trump in a Potential Power Grab

America needs its mental health experts to weigh in on Trump now

BUT THEY CAN’T CAUSE — Mental health professionals. DID YOU KNOW 
During the 1964 presidential campaign, a magazine polled psychiatrists about Republican candidate Barry Goldwater’s mental fitness, and the majority pronounced him “unfit” for office.  Did that influence public opinion? You bet. Therefore, in cautious response, the American Psychiatric Association passed the Goldwater Rule barring psychiatrists from diagnosing or offering professional opinions about the mental health of any person they have not personally examined. The Goldwater Rule makes sense to prevent wild speculation and smearing of those in the public eye. It puts the brakes on unscrupulous labeling, diagnosing and scandalizing.

Clarence Thomas was in so much debt two decades ago that he tried to get Supreme Court justice salaries raised across the board. Within months, Republican billionaires began giving him extravagant gifts BRIBES.

Swastika flags flown during Donald Trump boat parade in Florida

Laurence Tribe ⚖️ @tribelaw
“The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.”

ALITO
“[B]y taking the half measure of replacing him as the opinion’s author, instead of requiring him…to recuse wholly from the matter, you allowed the Court to violate and defy federal law, the Constitution, and its own Code of Conduct.”
As an appellate judge, Alito failed to recuse himself in two cases involving companies with which he had financial interest, even after he pledged to do so. Ted Kennedy Warned Us About Samuel Alito. He Was Ignored.

Alito the clown. The Supreme Court justice’s flag controversy should come as no surprise to anyone who paid attention to his nomination hearings in 2006.

#PASenate Republican leaders refuse to bring it up for a vote.
PA House Democrats @PaHouseDems
We passed a bill to fix this.
Why does counting the vote in Pennsylvania take so long? Al Schmidt points to a state rule that prevents election workers from even opening mail-in ballot envelopes and flattening the ballots until election day. Lifelong Republican Al Schmidt. He stood up to former President Trump and refused to join attempts to overturn his loss four years ago. As secretary of state, Schmidt is doing everything he can between now and election day to assure residents their votes will count – and to take on the lies Trump continues to spread about Pennsylvania.

Why Mark Ruffalo Joined the Navajo Nation’s 3-Mile Walk to the Polls: ‘This System Hasn’t Been Fair’ (Exclusive)

India Is Now Russia’s No. 2 Supplier of Restricted Technology

Millennials and Gen X Are Figuring Out What to Do With Boomers’ Stuff…
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-gen-x-boomer-inheritance-stuff-house-collectibles-2024-10 or https://archive.ph/8mFdg

Would you consider BTC safe at this point? Imman (OP) Member
October 14, 2010, 06:03:13 PM
I am really thinking about investing over $1000 of my savings into Bitcoin.
Would this be wise? Is BTC safe and stable at this point?
“I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
Investing his entire savings into #Bitcoin at $0.10, exactly 14 years ago $1,000 risk, $600,000,000 gain 

UPTOBER

I KEEP TELLING YOU
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Michael Moore Dares Joe Biden to Use ‘Full Immunity’ in Last Days as Prez

Referencing the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity that provided sweeping protections for “official acts” made by sitting presidents—which has created judicial uncertainty over Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election—Moore argued that Biden can now essentially govern however he wants.
“Some people are now calling you a ‘lame duck’ president—but then it occurred to me today: You’re not done. You’ve still got 100 days left in office! And the Supreme Court has just granted you super powers — AND immunity!” the film director continued.
Moore detailed a series of executive actions he said Biden should take before Jan. 20, 2025, claiming that the initiatives “already have the support of the majority of the American people.”
Moore’s “Bucket List for Scranton Joe” included 13 line items such as officially declaring the Equal Rights Amendment as “the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution,” eliminating student and medical debt, banning spam text messaging, granting clemency for non-violent drug offenders, and pardoning Edward Snowden.
The Hollywood veteran also called on Biden to “free the hostages in Gaza, free the political prisoners in Israel and stop this slaughter,” warning that his presidential legacy risked being defined by ongoing violence and conflict in Israel and Palestine.
“You want to help people, Joe. That’s your legacy. That’s the real Joe Biden,” Moore wrote.

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ECP NetHappenings NYT proves Musk-Twitter-Trump election interference

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Ward Christensen, co-founder of first online BBS system and creator of XMODEM, dies at 78. Peace.

This Diné leader is using horses to bring ‘the greatest Native turnout ever’ to the polls

Mainstream media is willing to say it: Elon Musk is meddling in November’s election.

The New York Times has been able to confirm coordination between the Trump Campaign and Elon Musk’s Twitter, exposing what may be the largest election interference scheme in history.

Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares from Trump’s media company.

Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’

Vladimir Putin Cultivated Donald Trump as ‘Source’: Ex-CIA Director – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-trump-source-cia-director-1967549

Elon Musk’s X engaged in a ‘pattern of election interference’ to help Trump: reports

 

Why are Democrats tarred as elites when the world’s richest man funds Trump?

Elect a clown, expect a circus.
My comeback will not be my revenge, it will be their punishment.

PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP
Coachella mess: Come for the lies, stay for the exercise.

The venue where Trump held the rally is in the middle of nowhere and 5 miles from parking. The cult was lured in with bus rides to get in to the venue and then abandoned when it was over. This is the perfect metaphor for a Trump presidency.
This is a failure on the organizers for the Trump rally. Period. Trump did the exact same thing in 2020, leaving supporters over a mile from their parked cars, in sub-zero weather and sleet and ice.
Trump only takes care of Trump. Will they ever figure it out?
The worst part is how deliberate it is. You know someone said
“Okay I booked the buses to get them back after the rally.”
“Why?”
“So they can go home.”
“We just need them for the media. I don’t care how they get home. They’ll vote for me anyway. Save the money for my lawyers.”

Wesley Johnson @WesIeyxJohnson
It’s 10:22pm. Rally ended at 7pm. Thousands
of people still stranded here waiting for transit
back to the parking lots. Something has gone
horribly wrong. Someone needs to ask the
Coachella mayor if he had anything to do with
this. Parking lot is a 2 hour walk. Countless
elderly stranded here and can’t walk anymore.
No restroom facilities accessible anymore. No
more water. No food. Started with 20 busses for
escorting people to the rally, and now only 1 bus
remains at this point. Busses apparently went
home. Not confirmed, but no more buses have
showed up in the last hour and a half. Someone
find out what happened here. This is not normal
and feels nefarious and criminal.
#TrumpRallyCA #CoacheIIaTrumpRaIIy

Cards Against Humanity offers payouts to new swing-state voters, responding to Musk’s PAC

Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally, 7 taken to hospitals

Overall, 30 people were “contacted” for medical reasons, the Omaha Police Department said in a statement.
Trump announces he will withhold disaster relief aid from California if they don’t obey him as president: “If you don’t do it we’re not giving you [aid]” he said “You can’t live with these people… You could be walking down the street with your husband you’ll both be dead they won’t even remember they did it.” This Nazi is fucking insane and so is America for even thinking about putting this raging shitstain anywhere near power again.

This is the last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked in America.
American citizens, including women and children, were locked in camps without due process or trial.
It’s one of the most abhorrent things America has ever done.
And last night, Trump promised to do it again.

Leaked emails reveal the truth about Rasmussen Reportsand the way the Trump campaign is breaking election law.

IMMEDIATELY go to vote.org Check your status. All states can do so from this site. If you’ve discovered the fascist GQP has purged you immediately re-register.

DOJ sues Virginia over voter roll purge
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a lawsuit against the state of Virginia for purging voter rolls on Friday. The department claims state officials violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by challenging voters’ eligibility too close to the November election.

 The Justice Department has sued Virginia and its election officials, claiming it struck names from voter rolls in violation of federal election law. What my governor did is clearly illegal. It’s illegal because if you drop people from the voter registration rolls less than 90 days before an election they don’t have time to fix it. Doing so is a form of election fraud. But Rethuglicans do it because they can’t win without cheating.

John Robert’s legacy is presiding over the most corrupt Supreme Court in history.

He owns that. John Roberts helped strip a 50 year long held right from us and is attempting to make Donald Trump a goddamn, motherfucking king.

John Roberts destroyed the United States with:
– Citizen’s United line of cases
– Gutting the Voting Rights Act
– Gutting Admin Agencies/Chevron
– Stripping Women of Human Rights
– Giving Tyrannical Presidents Criminal Immunity.

He’s the worst Chief Justice in American history.

TWO SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE: Lauren Boebert’s 19-year-old son, arrested on multiple charges following a string of car break-ins, faced up to 18 months in prison and a $100,000 fine. He was sentenced Friday to 80 hours of community service by a judge who gave him a sweetheart deal.

Given the breaking news, it must be seriously asked whether these eye injuries were the result of a chemical spray used at Trump rallies to mask the fact that TRUMP’s been defecating in public. The campaign said it would get to the bottom of this and did not.

HOW ARE YOU VOTING THIS YEAR?

– DEMOCRAT
– NAZI

Nazis at the trump boat parade flying swastikas in palm beach Jon Minadeo & GDL Nazis get DOUSED Promised to be “greatest Trump boat parade in history” by Roger Stone — only one boat with two guys on it.

This could not have happened until The Greatest Generation were all dead. They gave their lives to save us all from that horrible swastika. And now their sons and daughters are welcoming it. Such ingratitude is shameful beyond words.
My parents didn’t fight in WWII for this sh&t!!
MY Grandparents didn’t fight in WWI for this sh&t!!!
And my GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT Grandparent didn’t fight in the Civil War for this SHIT!!!


Damning Video Shows Roger Stone Is Plotting a Coup for November
The Donald Trump ally has some sick plans for a potential Republican victory.
https://newrepublic.com/post/187088/roger-stone-donald-trump-coup-november-video

Former Secret Service Agent says there is no reason other than to stage a coup for Donald Trump to request military protection other than the needed Secret Service detail. Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day citing ‘radical left lunatics’ and ‘the enemy from within’ This Is Not a Drill. 

If Reelected, Donald Trump Will Use the Military as an All-Powerful Tool to Deploy on U.S. Soil | Trump’s potential actions include carrying out mass deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act or quelling domestic unrest under the 1807 Insurrection Act.

President Harris must resist the Washington siren song of advisors who will tell her that pardoning Trump will “heal the nation.”

President Harris must resist the Washington siren song of advisors who will tell her that pardoning Trump will “heal the nation.”

President Harris must resist the Washington siren song of advisors who will tell her that pardoning Trump will “heal the nation.”

Boeing is set to layoff 17,000 workers, roughly 10% of its workforce. Their new CEO will make $22,000,000.

Fun fact: stock buybacks were illegal until 1982 (thanks Reagan)

AI CAN KILL YOU

Copilot “AI” medical advice may be capable of causing you severe harm, at least 22% of the time …

“42% of AI answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm.” A damning research paper suggests that Bing / Microsoft Copilot AI medical advice may actually kill you. |

Don’t ditch your human GP for Dr Chatbot quite yet

We shouldn’t rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for accurate and safe information about medications, because some of the information AI provides can be wrong or potentially harmful, according to German and Belgian researchers. They asked Bing Copilot – Microsoft’s search engine and chatbot – 10 frequently asked questions about America’s 50 most commonly prescribed drugs, generating 500 answers. They assessed these for readability, completeness, and accuracy, finding the overall average score for readability meant a medical degree would be required to understand many of them. Even the simplest answers required a secondary school education reading level, the authors say. For completeness of information provided, AI answers had an average score of 77% complete, with the worst only 23% complete. For accuracy, AI answers didn’t match established medical knowledge in 24% of cases, and 3% of answers were completely wrong. Only 54% of answers agreed with the scientific consensus, the experts say. In terms of potential harm to patients, 42% of AI answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm. Only around a third (36%) were considered harmless, the authors say. Despite the potential of AI, it is still crucial for patients to consult their human healthcare professionals, the experts conclude.
Media release
From: BMJ Group

Don’t rely on AI chatbots for accurate, safe drug information, patients warned And complexity of answers might make them hard to understand without college degree

Patients shouldn’t rely on AI powered search engines and chatbots to always give them accurate and safe information on drugs, conclude researchers in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety, after finding a considerable number of answers were wrong or potentially harmful.

What’s more, the complexity of the answers provided might make it difficult for patients to fully understand them without a degree level education, add the researchers.

In February 2023, search engines underwent a significant shift thanks to the introduction of AI-powered chatbots, offering the promise of enhanced search results, comprehensive answers, and a new type of interactive experience, explain the researchers.

While these chatbots can be trained on extensive datasets from the entire internet, enabling them to converse on any topic, including healthcare-related queries, they are also capable of generating disinformation and nonsensical or harmful content, they add.

Previous studies looking at the implications of these chatbots have primarily focused on the perspective of healthcare professionals rather than that of patients. To address this, the researchers explored the readability, completeness, and accuracy of chatbot answers for queries on the top 50 most frequently prescribed drugs in the US in 2020, using Bing copilot, a search engine with AI-powered chatbot features.

To simulate patients consulting chatbots for drug information, the researchers reviewed research databases and consulted with a clinical pharmacist and doctors with expertise in pharmacology to identify the medication questions that patients most frequently ask their healthcare professionals.

The chatbot was asked 10 questions for each of the 50 drugs, generating 500 answers in total. The questions covered what the drug was used for, how it worked, instructions for use, common side effects, and contraindications.

Readability of the answers provided by the chatbot was assessed by calculating the Flesch Reading Ease Score which estimates the educational level required to understand a particular text.

Text that scores between 0 and 30 is considered very difficult to read, necessitating degree level education. At the other end of the scale, a score of 91–100 means the text is very easy to read and appropriate for 11 year-olds.

To assess the completeness and accuracy of chatbot answers,responses were compared with the drug information provided by a peer-reviewed and up-to-date drug information website for both healthcare professionals and patients (drugs.com)

Current scientific consensus, and likelihood and extent of possible harm if the patient followed the chatbot’s recommendations, were assessed by seven experts in medication safety, using a subset of 20 chatbot answers displaying low accuracy or completeness, or a potential risk to patient safety.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) harm scales were used to rate patient safety events and the likelihood of possible harm was estimated by the experts in accordance with a validated framework.

The overall average Flesch Reading Ease Score was just over 37, indicating that degree level education would be required of the reader. Even the highest readability of chatbot answers still required an educational level of high (secondary) school.

Overall, the highest average completeness of chatbot answers was 100%, with an average of 77%. Five of the 10 questions were answered with the highest completeness, while question 3 (What do I have to consider when taking the drug?) was answered with the lowest average completeness of only 23%.

Chatbot statements didn’t match the reference data in 126 of 484 (26%) answers, and were fully inconsistent in 16 of 484 (just over 3%).

Evaluation of the subset of 20 answers revealed that only 54% were rated as aligning with scientific consensus. And 39% contradicted the scientific consensus, while there was no established scientific consensus for the remaining 6%.

Possible harm resulting from a patient following the chatbot’s advice was rated as highly likely in 3% and moderately likely in 29% of these answers. And a third (34%) were judged as either unlikely or not at all likely to result in harm, if followed.

But irrespective of the likelihood of possible harm, 42% of these chatbot answers were considered to lead to moderate or mild harm, and 22% to death or severe harm. Around a third (36%) were considered to lead to no harm.

The researchers acknowledge that their study didn’t draw on real patient experiences and that prompts in different languages or from different countries may affect the quality of chatbot answers.

“In this cross-sectional study, we observed that search engines with an AI-powered chatbot produced overall complete and accurate answers to patient questions,” they write.

“However, chatbot answers were largely difficult to read and answers repeatedly lacked information or showed inaccuracies, possibly threatening patient and medication safety,” they add.

A major drawback was the chatbot’s inability to understand the underlying intent of a patient question, they suggest.

“Despite their potential, it is still crucial for patients to consult their healthcare professionals, as chatbots may not always generate error-free information. Caution is advised in recommending AI-powered search engines until citation engines with higher accuracy rates are available,” they conclude.

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