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Autism-Related Information on Websites and General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Chatbots: Comparative, Bilingual Study

Valentin Nădășan; Ciprian-Rareș Păroiu; Alexandra Neguțescu; Elena-Gabriela Strete

Originally published 2026-07-13 · JMIR Formative Research
JMIR Publications Inc. · DOI 10.2196/85196 ↗

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AI / system type

Generative AI / bilingual information audit

Family implications

Design, ethics, stakeholder or technical evidence with child/family implications; household benefits are not assumed.

The AI connection

Benchmarks five generative chatbot systems against websites on autism information in two languages.

Why this reading matters

Directly addresses language access and querying practices while avoiding claims that one source type is always more reliable.

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Can the wording and language of a question change the quality of AI information about autism?

The paper tests how source type, language and question specificity affect information quality, moving Trust beyond a simple website-versus-AI preference.

Study context

English and Romanian websites plus five AI chatbot systems

Age / stage: Autism information for families; no child participants

Read with three questions

  1. How did broad questions differ from item-specific questions?
  2. What differed between English and Romanian sources?
  3. How did the timing gap between website and chatbot collection limit comparison?

Keep the limits in view

The study used a limited checklist and two languages, with a timing gap between source types. It did not measure parent understanding or child outcomes, and adjusted pairwise model differences were not consistently significant.

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Valentin Nădășan; Ciprian-Rareș Păroiu; Alexandra Neguțescu; Elena-Gabriela Strete (2026). Autism-Related Information on Websites and General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Chatbots: Comparative, Bilingual Study JMIR Formative Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/85196

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