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Artificial Intelligence in Health ChatGPT in writing scientific articles

1. Introduction and contextually relevant responses across a wide range
of inputs. Researchers have already employed ChatGPT to
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, one of the co-author academic papers and research articles, with at
most significant developments has been the widespread least four scientific papers and preprints credited to it by
integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into various the end of 2023. This figure represents only the official
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areas of our lives. This spread of AI has ushered in an and disclosed data. The exact number of scientific papers
era of unprecedented change, reshaping the very essence written using ChatGPT and the frequency with which
of human existence. From healthcare and education to researchers and academics seek help from such platforms
finance, transportation, and entertainment, the impact remain unknown. Unfortunately, these questions do
of AI permeates various aspects of our interconnected not have a definitive answer. However, scientific journal
world. 3-8 publishers are already banning or restricting the use of
AI has deeply impacted various fields, and one such IT products due to concerns about ethical issues,
area where its influence is particularly notable is in the fabricated research, and erroneous data. 21-23
writing of textual works such as science communication The issue of evaluating and reviewing AI-generated
articles, professional opinions, educational texts, technical articles is of significant interest to the scientific
recommendations, short stories, and other genres. 6,9-11 By community. Researchers from Northwestern University
automating and simplifying numerous writing tasks, AI and the University of Chicago recently generated research
technology has empowered writers to enhance their writing abstracts based on 10 real-life medical journal articles
processes. AI language models are trained on extensive using ChatGPT. They then asked reviewers to analyze
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datasets, encompassing books, articles, and websites. the abstracts written by ChatGPT and a human. The study
This exposure to diverse writing styles and vocabulary results showed that the reviewers correctly identified only
enables AI to imitate human language generation, analyze 68% of the generated abstracts and 86% of the genuine
vast amounts of data, learn from patterns, and generate abstracts. In addition, they incorrectly identified 32% of
comprehensive, coherent, and captivating articles. 10,12,13 the generated abstracts as real abstracts and 14% of the
AI-powered tools such as Grammarly, Lex, AI Writer, genuine abstracts as generated abstracts. Distinguishing
Any Word, and Rytr assist writers in real time with AI-generated content from human-written content proved
proofreading, editing, and formatting written content. to be a difficult task.
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In addition, AI enables the swift and efficient generation
of written material by optimizing search engine outcomes, Researchers, academics, journal editors, and publishers
generating content concepts, and developing plans. around the world are currently engaged in a debate about
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Furthermore, the application of AI has empowered the role of such technologies in the field of scholarly
freelance writers to produce error-free, audience-specific, writing. Writing scientific articles using AI, including
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and top-notch content, resulting in heightened customer ChatGPT, has several disadvantages. 12,26 First, there is a
satisfaction. 15 lack of creative thinking. AI systems excel at generating
content using templates and algorithms but struggle to
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writing. No one can deny the growing popularity generate new ideas or think outside the box. Second,
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AI cannot fully grasp the intricacies of human emotions,
of AI-generated scientific articles. Platforms offering resulting in a lack of emotional depth in the text. Third,
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AI-generated scientific articles provide great chances to and most importantly for scientific papers, these tools often
produce scientific, educational, or non-fiction materials generate texts based on biased, unverified, and inaccurate
rapidly, resulting in the swift production of a significant information. 27-29
number of articles. 11,17,18 Although these articles are
notable for their originality and accuracy and are often The use of AI in medical research is a widely discussed
indistinguishable from human-written works, they also topic. Medical publications provide doctors with access to
raise concerns about the credibility of the information new and effective treatment methods, as well as improved
presented and the potential for bias or misleading content. diagnostic techniques. 30,31 Therefore, it is important to
Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) carefully consider the capabilities of AI when writing
developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022, health-care articles.
is the leading AI-based platform in the market. This In this paper, we aim to investigate the profound impact
chatbot utilizes AI to automatically generate responses to of AI on article writing in the narrowly focused field of
text prompts. ChatGPT is trained on a vast amount of health care. Specifically, we explored the possibility of
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Internet text data, enabling it to grasp language patterns using ChatGPT to write specialized scientific articles on
and structures. 19,20 As a result, it can generate consistent three pre-selected medical topics with a telemedicine bias

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