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AI blackboxes, hallucinations and misinformation

03 August 2023

Professor Adam DunnĀ Biomedical Informatics & Digital Health, School of Medical Sciences - Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney

Open access logo Dunn AG, Leask J, Zhou X, Mandl KD, Coiera E. Associations Between Exposure to and Expression of Negative Opinions About Human Papillomavirus Vaccines on Social Media: An Observational Study. J Med Internet Res. 2015 Jun 10;17(6):e144. PubMed PMID: 26063290. PMCID: PMC4526932. Epub 20150610. eng.

Open access logo Surian D, Nguyen DQ, Kennedy G, Johnson M, Coiera E, Dunn AG. Characterizing Twitter Discussions About HPV Vaccines Using Topic Modeling and Community Detection. J Med Internet Res. 2016 Aug 29;18(8):e232. PubMed PMID: 27573910. PMCID: PMC5020315. Epub 20160829. eng.

Open access logo Dunn AG, Surian D, Leask J, Dey A, Mandl KD, Coiera E. Mapping information exposure on social media to explain differences in HPV vaccine coverage in the United States. Vaccine. 2017 May 25;35(23):3033-40. PubMed PMID: 28461067. Epub 20170429. eng.

Open access logoDunn AG, Surian D, Dalmazzo J, Rezazadegan D, Steffens M, Dyda A, et al. Limited Role of Bots in Spreading Vaccine-Critical Information Among Active Twitter Users in the United States: 2017-2019. Am J Public Health. 2020 Oct;110(S3):S319-s25. PubMed PMID: 33001719. PMCID: PMC7532316. eng.

Open access logo Broniatowski DA, Jamison AM, Qi S, AlKulaib L, Chen T, Benton A, et al. Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate. Am J Public Health. 2018 Oct;108(10):1378-84. PubMed PMID: 30138075. PMCID: PMC6137759. Epub 20180823. eng.

CIAP logoSteffens MS, Dunn AG, Marques MD, Danchin M, Witteman HO, Leask J. Addressing Myths and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Randomized Trial. Pediatrics. 2021 Nov;148(5). PubMed PMID: 34635584. Epub 20211011. eng.

Open access logoNguyen V, Testa L, Smith AL, Ellis LA, Dunn AG, Braithwaite J, et al. Unravelling the truth: Examining the evidence for health-related claims made by naturopathic influencers on social media - a retrospective analysis. Health Promot Perspect . 2022;12(4):372-80. PubMed PMID: 36852198. PMCID: PMC9958238. Epub 20221231. eng.

Open access logoJulie A, Olivia M, Kirsten M, Brad RM, Mingyi L, Yi S, et al. New frontiers in health literacy: Using ChatGPT to simplify health information for people in the community. medRxiv. 2023:2023.07.24.23292591.

Open access logo Dunn AG, Purnat TD, Ishizumi A, Nguyen T, Briand S. Measuring the burden of infodemics with a research toolkit for connecting information exposure, trust, and health behaviours. Arch Public Health. 2023 Jun 5;81(1):102. doi: 10.1186/s13690-023-01101-7. PMID: 37277857; PMCID: PMC10240452.

Open access logo Lim HM, Ng CJ, Abdullah A, Dalmazzo J, Lim WX, Lee KH, Dunn AG. Utility and usability evaluation of an information diary tool to measure health information access and exposure among patients with high cardiovascular risk . Front Public Health. 2023 May 9;11:1132397. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1132397. PMID: 37228723; PMCID: PMC10203480.

Open access logoWilhelm E, Ballalai I, Belanger ME, Benjamin P, Bertrand-Ferrandis C, Bezbaruah S, et al. Measuring the Burden of Infodemics: Summary of the Methods and Results of the Fifth WHO Infodemic Management Conference. JMIR Infodemiology. 2023;3:e44207. doi: 10.2196/44207. PMID: 37012998; PMCID: PMC9989916.

Open access logo Ramjee D, Pollack CC, Charpignon ML, Gupta S, Rivera JM, El Hayek G, Dunn AG, Desai AN, Majumder MS. Evolving Face Mask Guidance During a Pandemic and Potential Harm to Public Perception: Infodemiology Study of Sentiment and Emotion on Twitter. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Feb 27;25:e40706. doi: 10.2196/40706. PMID: 36763687; PMCID: PMC9973548.

Open access logo Nguyen V, Testa L, Smith AL, Ellis LA, Dunn AG, Braithwaite J, Sarkies M. Unravelling the truth: Examining the evidence for health-related claims made by naturopathic influencers on social media - a retrospective analysis. Health Promot Perspect. 2022 Dec 31;12(4):372-380. doi: 10.34172/hpp.2022.49. PMID: 36852198; PMCID: PMC9958238.

Open access logo Lim HM, Dunn AG, Lim JR, Abdullah A, Ng CJ. Association between online health information-seeking and medication adherence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Digit Health. 2022 May 13;8:20552076221097784. doi: 10.1177/20552076221097784. PMID: 35586836; PMCID: PMC9109497.

Open access logo Calleja N, AbdAllah A, Abad N, Ahmed N, Albarracin D, Altieri E, et al. A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference. JMIR Infodemiology. 2021;1(1):e30979.

Open access logo Dunn AG, Steffens M, Dyda A, Mandl KD. Knowing when to act: A call for an open misinformation library to guide actionable surveillance. Big Data & Society. 2021;8(1):20539517211018788.

Open access logo Steffens MS, Dunn AG, Leask J, Wiley KE. Using social media for vaccination promotion: Practices and challenges. Digit Health. 2020 Nov 3;6:2055207620970785. doi: 10.1177/2055207620970785. PMID: 35173976; PMCID: PMC8842369.

Open access logo Dyda A, King C, Dey A, Leask J, Dunn AG. A systematic review of studies that measure parental vaccine attitudes and beliefs in childhood vaccination. BMC Public Health. 2020 Aug 17;20(1):1253. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09327-8. PMID: 32807124; PMCID: PMC7433363.

Open access logo Klein C, Clutton P, Dunn AG. Pathways to conspiracy: The social and linguistic precursors of involvement in Reddit's conspiracy theory forum. PLoS One. 2019 Nov 18;14(11):e0225098. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225098. PMID: 31738787; PMCID: PMC6860422.

Open access logo Zhang H, Wheldon C, Dunn AG, Tao C, Huo J, Zhang R, Prosperi M, Guo Y, Bian J. Mining Twitter to assess the determinants of health behavior toward human papillomavirus vaccination in the United States. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Feb 1;27(2):225-235. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocz191. PMID: 31711186; PMCID: PMC7025367.

Open access logo Shah Z, Surian D, Dyda A, Coiera E, Mandl K, Dunn A Automatically Appraising the Credibility of Vaccine-Related Web Pages Shared on Social Media: A Twitter Surveillance Study. J Med Internet Res 2019;21(11):e14007 URL: https://www.jmir.org/2019/11/e14007 DOI: 10.2196/14007

Open access logo Steffens MS, Dunn AG, Wiley KE, Leask J. How organisations promoting vaccination respond to misinformation on social media: a qualitative investigation. BMC Public Health. 2019 Oct 23;19(1):1348. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7659-3. PMID: 31640660; PMCID: PMC6806569.

Open access logo Dyda A, Shah Z, Surian D, Martin P, Coiera E, Dey A, Leask J, Dunn AG. HPV vaccine coverage in Australia and associations with HPV vaccine information exposure among Australian Twitter users. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2019;15(7-8):1488-1495. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2019.1596712. Epub 2019 Apr 12. PMID: 30978147; PMCID: PMC6746515.

Open access logo Shah Z, Martin P, Coiera E, Mandl KD, Dunn AG. Modeling Spatiotemporal Factors Associated With Sentiment on Twitter: Synthesis and Suggestions for Improving the Identification of Localized Deviations. J Med Internet Res. 2019 May 8;21(5):e12881. doi: 10.2196/12881. PMID: 31344669; PMCID: PMC6682275.

Open access logo Dunn AG, Mandl KD, Coiera E. Social media interventions for precision public health: promises and risks. NPJ Digit Med. 2018;1:47. doi: 10.1038/s41746-018-0054-0. Epub 2018 Sep 19. PMID: 30854472; PMCID: PMC6402501.

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