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Evaluation of Google Gemini’s advice for irritable bowel syndrome

An increasing number of patients now consult an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant before seeing a clinician. Large language model (LLM) chatbots have begun to shape how people look up health-related information. Google’s Gemini is a helpful personal AI assistant that drafts answers based on a user’s prompt and Google search, after which it applies safety checks. I evaluated Gemini’s counseling for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder. The main objective here was to assess the safety and reliability of an AI’s guidance against established evidence.