Reference Hallucination Score for Medical Artificial Intelligence Chatbots: Development and Usability Study.

IF 3.1 3区医学 Q2 MEDICAL INFORMATICS

JMIR Medical Informatics Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI:10.2196/54345

Fadi Aljamaan, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Ibraheem Altamimi, Ayman Al-Eyadhy, Amr Jamal, Khalid Alhasan, Tamer A Mesallam, Mohamed Farahat, Khalid H Malki

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Abstract

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have recently gained use in medical practice by health care practitioners. Interestingly, the output of these AI chatbots was found to have varying degrees of hallucination in content and references. Such hallucinations generate doubts about their output and their implementation.

Objective: The aim of our study was to propose a reference hallucination score (RHS) to evaluate the authenticity of AI chatbots' citations.

Methods: Six AI chatbots were challenged with the same 10 medical prompts, requesting 10 references per prompt. The RHS is composed of 6 bibliographic items and the reference's relevance to prompts' keywords. RHS was calculated for each reference, prompt, and type of prompt (basic vs complex). The average RHS was calculated for each AI chatbot and compared across the different types of prompts and AI chatbots.

Results: Bard failed to generate any references. ChatGPT 3.5 and Bing generated the highest RHS (score=11), while Elicit and SciSpace generated the lowest RHS (score=1), and Perplexity generated a middle RHS (score=7). The highest degree of hallucination was observed for reference relevancy to the prompt keywords (308/500, 61.6%), while the lowest was for reference titles (169/500, 33.8%). ChatGPT and Bing had comparable RHS (β coefficient=-0.069; P=.32), while Perplexity had significantly lower RHS than ChatGPT (β coefficient=-0.345; P<.001). AI chatbots generally had significantly higher RHS when prompted with scenarios or complex format prompts (β coefficient=0.486; P<.001).

Conclusions: The variation in RHS underscores the necessity for a robust reference evaluation tool to improve the authenticity of AI chatbots. Further, the variations highlight the importance of verifying their output and citations. Elicit and SciSpace had negligible hallucination, while ChatGPT and Bing had critical hallucination levels. The proposed AI chatbots' RHS could contribute to ongoing efforts to enhance AI's general reliability in medical research.

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医疗人工智能聊天机器人的参考幻觉评分：开发与可用性研究

背景介绍人工智能（AI）聊天机器人最近开始被医疗从业人员用于医疗实践。有趣的是，人们发现这些人工智能聊天机器人的输出内容和参考资料存在不同程度的幻觉。这种幻觉让人对它们的输出和实施产生怀疑：我们的研究旨在提出参考幻觉评分（RHS），以评估人工智能聊天机器人引文的真实性：方法：六个人工智能聊天机器人接受了同样的 10 条医学提示，每条提示要求 10 篇参考文献。RHS由6个书目项目和参考文献与提示关键词的相关性组成。针对每个参考文献、提示和提示类型（基本与复杂）计算 RHS。计算每个人工智能聊天机器人的平均 RHS，并对不同类型的提示和人工智能聊天机器人进行比较：Bard 未能生成任何引用。ChatGPT 3.5 和 Bing 生成了最高的 RHS（得分=11），而 Elicit 和 SciSpace 生成了最低的 RHS（得分=1），Perplexity 生成了中等的 RHS（得分=7）。参考文献与提示关键词相关性的幻觉程度最高（308/500，61.6%），而参考文献标题的幻觉程度最低（169/500，33.8%）。ChatGPT 和 Bing 的 RHS 相当（β 系数=-0.069；P=.32），而 Perplexity 的 RHS 明显低于 ChatGPT（β 系数=-0.345；PC 结论：RHS的差异突出表明，有必要使用可靠的参考评估工具来提高人工智能聊天机器人的真实性。此外，这些差异还凸显了验证其产出和引用的重要性。Elicit 和 SciSpace 的幻觉几乎可以忽略不计，而 ChatGPT 和 Bing 的幻觉则达到了临界水平。所建议的人工智能聊天机器人的 RHS 可以为当前提高人工智能在医学研究中的总体可靠性做出贡献。

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JMIR Medical Informatics Medicine-Health Informatics

CiteScore

7.90

自引率

3.10%

发文量

173

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： JMIR Medical Informatics (JMI, ISSN 2291-9694) is a top-rated, tier A journal which focuses on clinical informatics, big data in health and health care, decision support for health professionals, electronic health records, ehealth infrastructures and implementation. It has a focus on applied, translational research, with a broad readership including clinicians, CIOs, engineers, industry and health informatics professionals. Published by JMIR Publications, publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), the leading eHealth/mHealth journal (Impact Factor 2016: 5.175), JMIR Med Inform has a slightly different scope (emphasizing more on applications for clinicians and health professionals rather than consumers/citizens, which is the focus of JMIR), publishes even faster, and also allows papers which are more technical or more formative than what would be published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.