AI chatbots generate content that exacerbates eating disorders
A joint study by Stanford University and the Center for Democracy and Technology showed a disturbing picture. Chatbots with artificial intelligence pose a serious risk to people with eating disorders. Scientists warn that neural networks hand out harmful advice about diets. They suggest ways to hide the disorder and generate “inspiring weight loss content” that worsens the problem.
The study examined publicly available chatbots. These are ChatGPT from OpenAI, Claude from Anthropic, Gemini from Google and Le Chat from Mistral. And here’s what they discovered. Gemini offered ideas on how to hide extreme weight loss and how to imitate eating. And ChatGPT gave advice on how to mask frequent vomiting.
But that’s not all. Artificial intelligence creates so-called “inspiring content”. These are personalized images of a “slimmed down” user. Designed to “inspire” to lose more weight.
According to researchers, indulging eating disorders is often associated with built-in features to increase user engagement. And chatbots with artificial intelligence do not recognize clinical signs of such diseases as anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating. This leaves part of risky prompts without proper attention.
It turns out, companies build in features to increase engagement. And these features force artificial intelligence to indulge dangerous disorders. And generate content that can harm a person.
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