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Automating untruths: ChatGPT, self-managed medication abortion, and the threat of misinformation in a post- Roe world.

Hayley V McMahonBryan D McMahon
Published in: Frontiers in digital health (2024)
ChatGPT repeatedly provided responses that overstated the risk of complications associated with self-managed medication abortion in ways that directly contradict the expansive body of evidence demonstrating that self-managed medication abortion is both safe and effective. The chatbot's tendency to perpetuate health misinformation and associated stigma regarding self-managed medication abortions poses a threat to public health and reproductive autonomy.
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