AI meal plans for teens may undercount calories by nearly 700, study suggests

Many teens dealing with weight issues are turning to AI models to help them create meal plans with the aim of losing weight.
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I Used AI-Powered Calorie Counting Apps, and They Were Even Worse Than I Expected

The promise is seductive: Snap a photo of your meal, and artificial intelligence will instantly tell you exactly how many calories you're consuming. No more tedious ...
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Popular AI Chatbots Are Prescribing Dangerous Crash Diets to Teenagers Counter to Medical Guidelines

The algorithms failed the test, prescribing diet plans that provided nearly 700 calories fewer than the intake levels recommended by a registered dietitian and skewing macronutrients into risky ...
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AI swears it’s cracked the calorie-tracking code. This researcher says we’re totally missing the point.

ONLINE TOOLS HAVE long promised to demystify and streamline calorie tracking. Because if you can track your calories, you can create a calorie “deficit.” And taking in fewer calories than you expend ( ...