Safety Audit of a Large Language Model for Lay Self-Triage Using Japanese Symptom Vignettes: Persistent Red-Flag Under-Triage Despite Improved Reproducibility Under Near-Deterministic Decoding.
Harada Y · 2026 · Cureus
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Abstract (excerpt)
Introduction Large language models are increasingly discussed as tools for patient-facing symptom assessment, but safe self-triage depends on the concrete next action recommended to the user rather than on generic urgency language alone.…
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Metadata source: Europe PMC · DOI 10.7759/cureus.105878