ChatGPT, et al … Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, and Medical Publishing

If you have not yet heard of ChatGPT, you will! This artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot is making waves in medicine,  education, academic publishing, and more widely. If you are a clinician and dismissed the idea that AI-powered care is part of our future, think again. AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT are being put to the test on clinical scenarios and board examinations and fare pretty well. GPT, generative pretrained transformer, describes the next generation in AI-powered chatbots that not only construct full sentences on topic but now synthesize information from many fields, from many sources, and with tremendous nuance. We tried ChatGPT recently, asking it to create a patient-facing educational brochure on medications for gout. Almost instantaneously, ChatGPT spit out a brochure that was accurate, written at the correct reading level, and appropriate in its supportive tone.