OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that can analyze people's medical data to give them better answers, but activists warn that it raises privacy concerns.
The company wants people to share their medical records along with data from apps like MyFitnessPal, which will be analyzed to provide personalized advice.
OpenAI said that conversations in ChatGPT Health would be stored separately from other conversations and would not be used to train its AI tools - and clarified that it was not intended to be used for "diagnosis or treatment".
Andrew Crawford, from the US non-profit organisation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, said it was "essential" to maintain "airtight" safeguards around users' health information.
It is not clear if or when this feature may be introduced in all countries.
According to OpenAI, more than 230 million people ask its chatbot questions about their health and well-being every week.
The company said its health feature was designed to "support, not replace, medical care." /Telegraph/
