What do AI assistants tell users about tobacco harm reduction? by Kristof Redei

More and more of the over one billion peo­ple who smoke or use to­bacco and nico­tine in other forms are us­ing AI as­sis­tants to learn about dis­ease risks and effec­tive ways to re­duce health prob­lems. I col­lected a small sam­ple of re­sponses to un­der­stand how ac­cu­rate and use­ful the ad­vice is, find the most com­mon types of in­cor­rect or mis­lead­ing claims, and help in­form efforts to make ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion more widely available. This was in­spired by a post ear­lier this...