ChatGPT offers an editorial on the opportunities for chatbots in dermatologic research and patient care.

Dermatol Online J

Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Division of Dermatologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Published: December 2023


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ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research laboratory, that is trained on massive-scale internet text data to understand a broad range of language styles and topics. As a mature, conversational chatbot, ChatGPT can respond to follow-up questions and produce coherent primary texts based on the user's request. We explore the opportunities and risks of integrating chatbots into dermatologic patient care and research while presenting ChatGPT's response to the same question.

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