00:00 According to an article posted in the Washington Post,
00:02 artificial intelligence has an eating disorder problem
00:06 when asking chat GPT particular questions
00:09 in regards to assistance with thinning.
00:11 Whilst the response did include warnings
00:13 that it should be done with medical supervision,
00:15 the bot still went ahead and assisted by naming drugs.
00:19 Pro-anorexia chatbots are a mere consequence
00:22 of some of the best tech-funded companies
00:25 not doing enough to prevent the circulation
00:27 of misleading health information.
00:29 It deceives users into thinking
00:31 the bots are an authoritative source or even a friend.
00:35 The imagery provided as a result
00:37 of doing a thin-spose search
00:39 only contributes to the unnecessary spread
00:42 of deeply unhealthy ideas regarding body image and eating,
00:46 fueling mental illness.
00:48 The site warns there's already evidence
00:50 that people with eating disorders are using AI.
00:53 Center for Countering Digital Hate researchers
00:55 found that people on an online eating disorder forum
00:58 with over 500,000 users were already using chat GPT
01:03 and other tools to produce diets,
01:06 including one meal plan that totaled 600 calories per day,
01:10 a significantly lower amount
01:12 than a medical professional would ever recommend.
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