ChatGPT, meal planning and food allergies: Study measured 'robo diet' safety as experts sound warnings

A professor says AI chatbot software, such as ChatGPT, could restructure postsecondary education by replacing some textbooks and promoting critical thinking. As artificial intelligence has made its way into everything from content creation to health care, could "robo recipes" be next on the menu? Researchers from the Poznań University of Economics and Business in Poland entered prompts into ChatGPT -- the AI-powered large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI -- to get meal recommendations for specific food allergies. "ChatGPT -- at least in the version that was tested in January 2023 -- generally produced balanced diet plans for people with food allergies, but not all of them were safe," Paweł Niszczota, lead researcher of the study, which was published in the journal Nutrition, told Fox News Digital. Each year, some 30,000 people visit the emergency room with food allergy reactions and 150 to 200 die from them, studies have shown.