Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y?ref=labnotes.org
Tested alone, LLMs complete the scenarios accurately, correctly identifying conditions in 94.9% of cases and disposition in 56.3% on average. However, participants using the same LLMs identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5% of cases and disposition in fewer than 44.2%, both no better than the control group.