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Generative AI accurately identifies eating disorders (ED) and recommends appropriate care, outperforming human responses in structured scenarios. This technology shows promise in providing unbiased, evidence-based information for eating disorder identification and treatment.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Background:

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used for accessing health information, including eating disorders (ED).
  • The accuracy and suitability of AI-generated ED information require thorough evaluation.
  • Benchmarking AI performance against human responses is crucial for understanding its clinical utility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate generative AI's accuracy in identifying eating disorder (ED) presentations.
  • To assess AI's ability to recommend appropriate ED care.
  • To compare AI performance against human clinician and community participant responses.

Main Methods:

  • ChatGPT-5.4 was presented with two clinical vignettes depicting restrictive ED and binge-eating disorder (BED).
  • AI responses for problem identification and treatment recommendations were analyzed across 20 prompt administrations per vignette.
  • AI performance was benchmarked against data from human clinicians (vignette one) and community participants (vignette two).

Main Results:

  • Generative AI correctly identified ED presentations across varying weights (90-100%) and recommended specialized ED treatment (100%).
  • AI outperformed human clinicians in identifying EDs (100% vs. 16-47%) and recommending treatment (100% vs. 17-35%).
  • For BED, AI correctly identified the disorder (100% vs. 59%) and endorsed evidence-based treatments (100% vs. 50%) compared to community participants.

Conclusions:

  • Generative AI demonstrates high accuracy in identifying eating disorder presentations in structured scenarios.
  • AI effectively recommends suitable care, showing potential to overcome common human biases.
  • The findings support generative AI's utility in providing accurate information for eating disorder identification and treatment recommendation.