#2 - Digital Snake Oil: How AI Makes Health Disinformation Dangerously Persuasive
What if a convincing medical article you read online—citing peer-reviewed journals and quoting real-sounding experts—was entirely fabricated by AI?
In this episode, we dive into the unsettling world of AI-generated health disinformation. Researchers recently built custom GPT-based chatbots trained to spread myths. The result? Persuasive narratives full of fabricated studies, misleading statistics, and plausible-sounding jargon—powerful enough to sway even savvy readers.
We break down how these AI systems were created, why today’s safeguards failed to stop them, and what this means for public…
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