"I can't stop you from searching for medical information online, but maybe I can help guide you towards better quality information,"
"may increase the risk of patients dying from the disease."
"[I]f someone followed what the search result told them then they might not take in enough calories, struggle to put on weight, and be unable to tolerate either chemotherapy or potentially life-saving surgery."
Google's search increasingly uses AI to generate health-related results. AI-generated results have sometimes contradicted medical experts and given recommendations that could harm patients. One example is advice to avoid high-fat foods for people with pancreatic cancer, which can cause inadequate calorie intake, weight loss, and inability to tolerate chemotherapy or potentially life-saving surgery, increasing mortality risk. Additional problematic AI outputs have affected interpretation of liver function tests and guidance for vaginal cancer testing. Because many people use online search results for medical information, inaccurate AI outputs pose real risks and warrant caution and higher-quality sources.
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