Written by Humans or Artificial Intelligence? That Is the Question

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Ideas and Opinions14 March 2023Written by Humans or Artificial Intelligence? That Is the QuestionMichiel Schinkel, MD, Ketan Paranjape, MSc, PhD, and Prabath Nanayakkara, MD, PhDMichiel Schinkel, MDAmsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, and Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (M.S.)Search for more papers by this author, Ketan Paranjape, MSc, PhDAmsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (K.P., P.N.).Search for more papers by this author, and Prabath Nanayakkara, MD, PhDAmsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (K.P., P.N.).Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/M23-0154 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Let us start with a quiz. In the Table, we present part of the introduction of an article published in Annals of Internal Medicine, next to an introduction generated by a software application called Chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) (1, 2). Which of the 2 is generated by AI?Table. Part of the Introduction of an Article Published in Annals and a Version Generated by the AI-Powered ChatbotIntroductionOn 21 January 1677, “Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New England How to Order Themselves and Theirs in the Small Pocks, or Measles” became the first medical publication ...