Studies Warn AI Diet Chatbots Can Dispense Dangerous, Reasonable-Sounding Nutrition Advice

AI chatbots trained on nutrition and fitness research can generate meal plans and dietary guidance that sound sensible but are nutritionally dangerous, according to a growing body of research and documented medical cases. The concern is that plausibility itself is the hazard: advice that reads as authoritative and reasonable can be all the more harmful because its risks are easy to overlook.