Potential of Large Language Models as Tools Against Medical Disinformation - Reply

In Reply We express our gratitude to Zhu et al for engaging with our work. Zhu et al correctly point out that malevolent individuals have historically used manual methods to create and disseminate health disinformation. However, the emergence of sophisticated large language models (LLMs) represents a potential tipping point. These tools possess unprecedented capabilities to personalize content targeted at individuals from diverse backgrounds. If their safeguards are inadequate, their ability to facilitate rapid, scalable, and cost-effective generation of health disinformation presents a unique and substantial challenge that should not be ignored...