An eating disorders chatbot offered dieting advice, raising fears about AI in health (www.npr.org)

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The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.

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[-] phi1997@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Another case of people who should know better thinking that machine learning AIs are the same kind of AI you see in science fiction.

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