--- title: AI chatbots don’t improve medical advice, study finds description: A University of Oxford study with 1,298 UK participants found that AI chatbots (GPT-4o, Llama 3, Command R+) don't improve medical advice compared to search... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-chatbots-don-t-improve-medical-advice-study-finds-sorxdsiqw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI chatbots don’t improve medical advice, study finds | daily.dev og:description: A University of Oxford study with 1,298 UK participants found that AI chatbots (GPT-4o, Llama 3, Command R+) don't improve medical advice compared to search... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-chatbots-don-t-improve-medical-advice-study-finds-sorxdsiqw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sOrxdsIQw.png og:image:alt: AI chatbots don’t improve medical advice, study finds og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI chatbots don’t improve medical advice, study finds **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A University of Oxford study with 1,298 UK participants found that AI chatbots (GPT-4o, Llama 3, Command R+) don't improve medical advice compared to search engines or personal knowledge. Despite LLMs performing well on medical benchmarks, users struggled to provide relevant information to chatbots, and the models gave inconsistent recommendations—including opposite advice for similar symptoms. The research suggests current AI chatbots aren't ready for real-world medical decision-making and could strain healthcare systems with incorrect diagnoses. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [“Dr. Google” had its issues. 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