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Leveraging large language models to address common vaccination myths and misconceptions

2026-03-02 health informatics Title + abstract only
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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used by the public to seek health information, yet their reliability in addressing common vaccine myths remains unclear. We conducted an exploratory multi-vendor evaluation of three LLMs (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4) using officially curated vaccination myths from Germanys public health institution and two realistic user framings as prompts: a curious skeptic and a convinced believer. All model responses were independently evaluated by t...

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