HealthDay (10/18, Gotkine) reports, “ChatGPT provides recommendations that align with accepted guidelines for management of mild and severe depression, according to” findings published online Oct. 4 in Family Medicine and Community Health. After presenting vignettes about depression ten times to Chat GPT-3.5 and Chat GPT-4, researchers concluded that “ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 recommended psychotherapy in 95.0 and 97.5 percent of cases, respectively, for mild depression, while primary care physicians recommended psychotherapy in 4.3 percent of cases.” Additionally, “for severe cases, primary care physicians mostly recommended ‘referral for psychotherapy and prescription of pharmacological treatment,’” while “ChatGPT favored this approach more frequently.”
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— “ChatGPT Potentially Beneficial for Treating Depression,”Elana Gotkine, HealthDay, October 18, 2023