Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing

🤖 Plain-English Summary

While still in its infancy, ChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer), introduced in November 2022, is bound to hugely impact many industries, including healthcare, medical education, biomedical research, and scientific writing. We tested ChatGPT to write about the pathogenesis of these conditions.

🔑 Key Findings

• Implications of ChatGPT, that new chatbot introduced by OpenAI on academic writing, is largely unknown.
• In response to the Journal of Medical Science (Cureus) Turing Test - call for case reports written with the assistance of ChatGPT, we present two cases one of homocystinuria-associated osteoporosis, and the other is on late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD), a rare metabolic disorder.
• We tested ChatGPT to write about the pathogenesis of these conditions.

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