ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and suicide prevention: A call for a targeted and concerted research effort.

Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, Vol 44(5), 2023, 367-370; doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000915There is an ever-increasing speed in digital transformation, including health communication and healthcare. ChatGPT is one of the most recent milestones in this regard, having been introduced to the public by OpenAI in November 2022. Although ChatGPT is still under development, it is likely that we will face a widespread rollout of such tools during the next few years. ChatGPT is one of the latest innovations that will make accessibility of health information even easier and low-threshold. As a so-called large language model, ChatGPT has been trained with machine learning approaches on a vast amount of text-based content available online, enabling it to perform various natural language processing tasks. The features of ChatGPT are similar to Internet search engines such as Google, but, over and above that, users also have the opportunity to interact with it. If users ask any question, ChatGPT will reply, which can potentially start a conversation between the users and ChatGPT. Users can freely decide on their topic, and on the length and language of the conversation, and ChatGPT is available to them 24/7. Although the applied large language model has its limitations, such as its inability to generate new thoughts – any content has to be already freely available online – it appears that a point has now been reached in human history at which artificial i...
Source: Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research