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AXIOS (Tina Reed) - Doctors' growing AI deepfakes problem

AI is helping make doctors the unwitting stars of deepfake videos that hawk questionable products or spread misinformation, prompting calls from clinicians for more privacy and transparency laws. Why it matters: The profusion of AI content on social media platforms could further erode public trust in the medical establishment. - It could also be used to fuel insurance fraud, steal data and put patients at risk. Driving the news: The American Medical Association called on federal and state lawmakers last week to close legal gaps and modernize identity protections to address what its CEO John Whyte called a public health and safety crisis. - The physicians group also wants a crackdown against deepfake creators and rules to force tech…

AXIOS (Caitlin Owens) - The era of Doctor AI is already here

Like it or not, consumers are already consulting AI for medical advice whenever they want to. Why it matters: This is opening access to medical information in an entirely new way. The problem is, that advice may not always be very good. Where it stands: OpenAI put out some numbers in January: More than 40 million people ask its ChatGPT health care-related questions every day, and 1 in 4 of the tool's approximately 800 million regular users submits a health care prompt every week. - The careful debate over how AI should be deployed, regulated and evaluated in clinical settings often fails to acknowledge that the cat's already out of the bag when it comes to direct-to-consumer use. - "Too often people are using this as an expert and not…