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CITATION: Richard J. Lu & Babak Azizzadeh. Goodbye Dr. Google, hello Dr. ChatGPT: Advancing a new frontier for ENT medical information online. Am J Otolaryngology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjoto.2025.104618
'The rise of generative AI (GAI) search tools like ChatGPT has ushered in a new era in the dissemination of medical information. As the adoption of GAI platforms continues to increase amongst hundreds of millions of users (Table 1), so has their use as an adjunctive tool for their healthcare decision-making, with nearly one third of adults trusting AI chatbots to provide reliable health information....'
OpenAI ChatGPT
- Quote from platform: “We've trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
- Number of visits: 3690 million [?cumulative]
- Number of unique users: 330 million per month
The website digitaltrends says (1 April 2025): 'OpenAI’s flagship service ChatGPT remains as popular as ever, with the brand having hit a 500 million active user milestone in recent days... The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, shared on X on Monday that ChatGPT gained “one million users in the last hour.” OpenAI said Monday that ChatGPT now has 500 million weekly users'
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/viral-trend-drives-chatgpt-to-50...
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org