Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence chatbots in responding to myopia-related queries from parents and patients

Swati Panigrahi; Sujit Shah; Swapnil Thakur; Sayantan Biswas; Pavan K. Verkicharla

doi:10.4103/IJO.IJO_1104_26

Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence chatbots in responding to myopia-related queries from parents and patients

Swati Panigrahi
, Sujit Shah
, Swapnil Thakur
, Sayantan Biswas
, Pavan K. Verkicharla^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The post‑COVID era has witnessed rapid Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancement and increased Internet accessibility, enabling users to seek spontaneous health‑related information. ChatGPT‑5 (OpenAI), Gemini 2.0 (Google DeepMind), and DeepSeek‑R1 (DeepSeek AI) are freely available, latest AI chatbots increasingly used for common health queries.[2,3] We compared their reliability in answering the common patient and parent questions on myopia, an emerging disease of the 21st century...

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S307-S308
Number of pages	6
Journal	Indian journal of ophthalmology
Volume	74
Issue number	Suppl. 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4103/IJO.IJO_1104_26
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2026

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