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chatbots believe that “rectal garlic” cures if you use a clinical tone

March 15, 2026 by usatoday24

It is increasingly common to turn to AI for any question we have, even when it is medical typelike we have a belly or foot pain. And the answer it gives is almost always trusted because it is an AI, and it seems that its word it is the absolute truth. But the reality is different, since a couple of studies have shown that current AI suffers from serious authority bias. What does it mean? Simply put, science has determined that if you present the AI with a medical myth using clinical jargon, there is almost a 50% chance that it will prove you right. And that includes even inserting garlic into the rectum. How to do it. a great study published in The Lancet has set off alarms in the medical and technological community. Its objective was none other than to introduce more than a million prompts to up to 20 of the leading AI models on the market. And here what has been seen is that AI does not mainly evaluate the veracity of the information, but rather the format in which it is presented to them. The keys. To ‘strain’ a myth like this, the secret seems to be in how we tell it. In this way, if the AI is presented with a health hoax taken from social networks with non-technical language, it immediately activates its security filters and rejects the claims made and completely discards that, for example, putting garlic up the anus improves health. But this changes completely when these same myths are camouflaged within a medical format, as if it were the hospital discharge report. Here the AIs accepted and repeated the falsehoods in 46% of cases. That is why the study suggests that AI is more convinced by how a statement sounds than by the evidence behind it to discard or accept what we tell it. There are absurd examples. Among the pseudoscientific practices that managed to sneak in, rectal garlic stands out. Here they managed to convince the AI that inserting garlic into the rectum is an effective method to improve the immune system. He does not stop here, since he also convinced that cold milk is good for treating bleeding from the esophagus, even if it is quite intense, which logically has no support behind it. And these examples demonstrate that current security mechanisms collapse when the user imitates the authoritarian language of a health professional. There are worse things. As if this were not enough, Nature magazine ended the debate in February 2026, as it published complementary research on the reliability of these chatbots for the general public, generating quite similar results. Although, current AIs do not surpass a standard Google search to make a health decision, and it may even be worse to search on the Internet, since the amount of alarmist information can generate a great stress situation for the user. Nature’s verdict? Current AIs do not outperform a standard internet search for making health decisions. On the contrary, they generate mixed advice that ends up greatly confusing users who lack medical training. That is why the conclusion here is that, although artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize diagnosis and healthcare, current models are not ready to act as infallible pocket doctors. In this way, using him as a family doctor is not one of the best ideas we can have, since we already see that it is easy to make him slip in different false statements. In Xataka | A ChatGPT dedicated to giving you unsupervised medical advice seemed like a risky idea. And he is confirming it

The ChatGPT Atlas agent made my purchase at Mercadona and now I have a pantry full of garlic

October 29, 2025 by usatoday24

a week ago I tried the new ChatGPT Atlasthe new OpenAI browser and, although it has a lot to improve, it seemed like a threat to Google’s dominance with Chrome. Today I put it to the test again, this time with a Plus subscription, and I wanted to check if agent mode is capable of hmake the purchase at Mercadona. Posing the situation It was the first time I used ChatGPT for something like this and I didn’t want to just give you a list. of the purchase, so first I asked him for ideas to make healthy recipes that are delicious. He offered me several options and when I decided on one of them, I activated agent mode and asked him to buy the ingredients at Mercadona. We have already talked about AI browsers are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks and OpenAI knows it. Before starting, a message appeared alerting me that using agent mode carries risks and I could use it with or without the session logged in. In my case I have chosen the logged in session because I wanted to see it work more easily, but as a precaution I have first deleted my payment details on the Mercadona website. Making the purchase Once the risks have been accepted, agent mode has been activated and the mouse has started to move through the Mercadona website interface. The sidebar shows the model’s entire thought and decision-making process while buying the ingredients to make a chickpea curry. In the video you can see the entire purchase process. The agent has been making decisions when he has found several items to choose from. For example, the recipe required an onion, but decided that it was more practical to buy a 1kg package. However, when choosing spinach, he decided that a package of baby spinach was better than the large package that is much cheaper. When he finished choosing ingredients he asked me to check it and I asked him to change the spinach. He has done it without question. The process has stopped when it has run into an insurmountable obstacle: it only had 10.28 euros and the minimum order on the Mercadona website is 50 euros, so I asked it to also include the ingredients of another of the recipes that it had suggested to me at the beginning, one for baked salmon. Since that one didn’t reach the minimum order either, I told him that I wanted to make it for four people and please don’t give me frozen salmon, but fresh ones. The agent adjusted the quantities and changed the salmon for a fresh one, but it still didn’t reach 50 euros, so I asked for something more creative.: to look for the most viral Mercadona products recently and add them to the basket. The purchase is made for you, but there is a problem When he was done, it was time to check the basket. I found that I had added garlic and also purple garlic. The normal garlic was fine, but the purple ones? I have reviewed the chain of thought and he was confused looking for purple onion. Mercadona calls it “red onion” and the agent has decided that it was better to add purple garlic because the color matched, even though they were a different ingredient. Regarding the viral products, I have chosen an advent calendar with makeup, smoked raclette cheese, cookie nougat and pistachio cake. The total amount was 66 eurosit is true that I have not expressly told you to adjust to 50 euros, but it seems to me that you have gone a little overboard. The agent has taken control of the browser and done exactly what he wanted: make the purchase for me. However, there is a problem and that is It’s very slow. I haven’t helped much either. Not having anticipated that there was a minimum order and the additional requests that I have been making, such as changing the quantities or choosing products by itself, has made it even slower. In total he has been thinking for almost 15 minutes, but if we take into account only the first part of the purchase for the chickpea curry, it has taken 2:14 minutes. More than two minutes to add eight items to cart. All the time I had the feeling that I would already have the order finished and paid for. Regarding reliability, I have to say that He has made fewer mistakes than I expected, but it is still necessary to check what you have added to the basket at the end because you can sneak in some garlic instead of onions, and I already have enough garlic in the pantry. Much more practical in other scenarios One of the use scenarios that OpenAI gave in the presentation of its new browser was precisely to make the purchase. After trying it, it is clear to me that the ChatGPT Atlas agent mode has a lot of potential, but not for making the purchase, that’s why I have tried another scenario where it can be much more useful: organize a trip. I asked him to find places for me to go on a getaway over the December long weekend, that were less than 2 hours by car from Valencia, with a specific budget and to look for them on Booking and Airbnb. In six minutes he gave me options for two different destinationsorganized in a table with price per night and highlights. Once I have decided, I only had to give him the personal information to complete the reservation. To organize a trip it is practical. Making the purchase is simply adding things to the cart, a much more mechanical process that we can do manually in a very short time. If we also encounter obstacles such as the minimum order or we are not completely clear about what we want, we end up losing more time than gaining it. Where the agent does offer more … Read more

Garlic is mired in a deep crisis in Spain. And that is bad news for a particular place: Cuenca

June 8, 2025 by usatoday24

Spain occupies An important place In the world macker of garlic, but that does not mean that the farmers of Castilla-La Mancha or Andalusia who are dedicated to growing it are easy. The garlic It crosses turbulence. The sector warns of the difficulties that are to combat pests, the effects of drought, the “excessive bureaucracy” or the lack of generational relief, among other stalking challenges. A complicated panorama that is seen with special attention from the province of Cuenca, where the Purple Garlic from Las Pedroñeras. After all, garlic is much more than a vegetable that fluctuates in the market: The sector claims which is a crop that helps to “pour” the emptied Spain. “In crisis”. He newly named President of the National Garlic Bureau, José Carlos Patiño, is clear: they do not run good times for his business. In An interview With eldiario.es the agriculture Manchego, the new visible face of the Aheros, warned that the sector “is suffering a” aggravated crisis, among other factors, by the water scarcitythe reduction of hectares of crop, the lack of generational relief and a bureaucracy that they consider “excessive.” It is nothing new. His predecessor, Julio Bacete I already used The same word to describe the situation that farmers dedicated to garlic culture face: “crisis.” A year ago, during A talk with Xatakahe admitted that the sector was going through “complicated moments”, a trend that is visible mainly in the loss of hectares dedicated to plantations. Why’s that? For a sum of factors. Although not all weigh the same. When explaining the situation, farmers usually point out above all loss of resources To fight pests. They ensure that their arsenal has been trimmed by regulations, which subtracts tools to protect crops … and their investments. “It’s not about talking badly about the 2030 Agenda or the Green Pact, but the reduction we carry in phytosanitary is affecting us a lot. There are diseases, pests, fungi that we cannot control,” warns Patiño. “We have a very large decrease. There is a lack of performance, simply in the seed itself. In nascence there are plots that have a decrease of 30% damage. In the end, that is kilos of garlic,” Comment the representative of the sector. He is not the only one who thinks like that. The president of the National Association of Garlic Producers and Marketers (ANPCA), Fernando Rubio, He shared recently A similar message with The confidential: “Pests begin to be resistant because we have very little variety of active matter that we can use.” Pest question … And something else. Although the shortage of resources to treat pests and fungi is usually one of the most cited handicaps by farmers is not the only one that explains the “crisis” that faces garlic. The guild indicates other serious ones, both structural and short -term: water shortage, specialized professionals and generational relief, “Excess bureaucracy”loss of hectares, the cost of land lease, low visibility in the domestic market or even the effect of imports and The tariffs by Donald Trump. The sector has been dealing with China’s competition for some time, Great world exporter of garlic and that stands out especially for its prices. With that backdrop, In the guild worries now what The tariff war and the imposition of levies to Chinese trade in the US ends up leading Asian farmers to redirect their merchandise towards other destinations, complicating exports to Spain. It is not the only conjunctural challenge with which the sector has dealt with, which in recent years has had to see them with The increase of The energy either Fertilizers. Hectares. The transformation of the sector can also be measured in figures. For example, that of the cultivated area. The data does not always coincide, but show a clear loss of soil: The report presented a year ago by the National Garlic Table to the Mixed Fruit and Vegetable Committee notes that it has passed from 29,826 hectares in 2021 to a provision of 21,000. Other sources They point out that it has dropped from 24,900 h in 2023 to something less than 23,000 In the 2024 season. The descent would be even more accent in Some regions. “Much investment”. “Putting one hectare of garlic carries a lot warns Patiño at eldiario.es. Less land does not always have less crops. Some data They point to the high weight of garlic Springvariety that stands out for its rhythm of production and performance, and a loss of land of purple garlic. As for prices, the manager wait Good values, above last year. The ministry indicates that the 100 kg of dry garlic are in 125 euros. Garlic (and something else). Not everyone lives the same turbulence that the vegetable is going through. After all, as He noticed recently Rubio, garlic plays a key role as a job generator in part of emptied Spain. “The cultivation is going to be lost to many villages of rural Spain, the reason for about 60 wages per hectare,” duck The President of ANPCA. In that context, there is a variety of culture to which Pay attention The sector: purple garlic. In a basin place … “In purple garlic it is a very serious problem. It is in danger and production can be left,” Patiño points out to The confidential. The reason is simple: to the rest of the challenges that the Ajero collective is going through, the purple variety adds the lack of visibility in the stores. Although the purple garlic of Las Pedroñeras It has one Protected Geographic Indicationthe sector regrets its lack of dissemination in a market in which the client values the cost. Looking at the Canary Islands banana. “It does not happen with the banana, which differs much from the banana. Here the qualities are not compared to, but there is no culture to seek the garlic of the Pedroñeras in the super” s, Rubio reflects. To this lack of recognition is added the performance of the variety, less than that … Read more

Comforting Cabbage and Garlic Soup for a Healthy Gut

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

The soups are comfort foods that help us stay warm in the winter, and an opportunity to add natural ingredients with health benefits such as garlic cabbage soup that contributes to a healthy intestine. This garlic cabbage soup is a light meal, ideal for dinner, rich in antioxidants present in the main ingredients of the soup such as: onions, garlic and cabbage. While beans provide fiber and generate a feeling of fullness. The mixture of lemon, egg and parmesan cheese gives it a delicious flavor. Benefits of cabbage and garlic The Eating Well site, specialized in healthy eating, shares a recipe with two key ingredients for intestinal health: cabbage and garlic. The repollo It is a vegetable of the cruciferous family, recognized for being a functional food due to its high nutrient profile, considered anti-canceramong them sulfur, with the so-called glucosinolates, which give them their characteristic strong and sometimes bitter odor. White cabbage or cabbage has anticanderigenous properties.Credit: Shutterstock While the Garlic is a plant with prebiotic properties, which promotes intestinal health due to its ability to feed the intestinal bacteria for their healthy development. which influences overall microbiome health. Garlic has a spicy flavor, it is from the alliaceae family, among which are onions, chives and chives. Garlic has sulfur compounds that help intestinal health.Credit: Shutterstock Cabbage soup recipe Ingredients 4 cups chopped green cabbage 5 cloves garlic, thinly sliced (3 tablespoons) 4 cups low-sodium vegetable broth or chicken-free broth 1 can (15 ounces) no-salt-added beans, rinsed 1 small yellow onion or the equivalent of 1 cup 1 teaspoon dried oregano ½ teaspoon ground pepper, 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 egg 2½ tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill, plus more for garnish ¼ teaspoon salt Preparation mode 1.- Heat a large pot, add 2 tablespoons of oil. 2.-Add the chopped onion and sliced garlic and stir until they soften until the flavors are integrated. 3.- Add 4 cups of cabbage, 1 teaspoon of oregano and ½ teaspoon of pepper. Cook until the cabbage is softened, about 3 minutes. 4.- Add the 4 cups of broth and the rinsed beans, stir and cook over high heat until it boils and leave for 8 minutes. 5.- Beat the egg, add ¼ cup of Parmesan and 2½ tablespoons of lemon juice in a medium heatproof bowl. Add ½ cup of the hot soup broth to the mixture and whisk well. 6.- Turn off and remove the soup from the heat. Add the warmed egg mixture and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons dill and ¼ teaspoon salt. 7.- Serve and enjoy. Keep reading:

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