Letter to the Editor: What are the legal and ethical considerations of submitting radiology reports to ChatGPT?
It highlights data privacy risks for patients in healthcare AI applications, but is incremental as it builds on existing ethical discussions.
This letter critiques a prior study on using large language models (LLMs) to identify urgent findings in radiology reports, raising concerns about the ethical and legal issues of using patient data without explicit consent, particularly under GDPR regulations.
This letter critically examines the recent article by Infante et al. assessing the utility of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Perplexity, and Bard in identifying urgent findings in emergency radiology reports. While acknowledging the potential of LLMs in generating labels for computer vision, concerns are raised about the ethical implications of using patient data without explicit approval, highlighting the necessity of stringent data protection measures under GDPR.