ChatGPT, meal planning and food allergies: Study measured ‘robo diet’ safety as experts sound warnings
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A new study explored AI’s use in meal planning. Researchers confirmed the risk that ChatGPT can produce nutritional advice that is dangerous for people with food allergies.
Researchers from the Poznań University of Economics and Business in Poland entered prompts into ChatGPT — the AI-powered large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI — to get meal recommendations for specific food allergies. "I've seen firsthand how it helped users request endless variations of diet plans without worrying about the cost of visiting a nutritionist." "If a person with allergies follows a meal plan generated by a chatbot and suffers a reaction, it's not clear who should be held liable for any damages." Melissa Rudy is health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.
"ChatGPT — at least in the version that was tested in January 2023 — generally produced balanced diet plans for people with food allergies, but not all of them were safe," Paweł Niszczota, lead researcher of the study, which was published in the journal Nutrition, told Fox News Digital.