Comparisons of Quality, Correctness, and Similarity Between ChatGPT-Generated and Human-Written Abstracts for Basic Research: Cross-Sectional Study

Shu-Li Cheng   ¹ , PhD ;   Shih-Jen Tsai   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Ya-Mei Bai   ^{2, 3} , MD, PhD ;   Chih-Hung Ko   ^{4, 5, 6} , MD, PhD ;   Chih-Wei Hsu   ⁷ , MD ;   Fu-Chi Yang   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Chia-Kuang Tsai   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Yu-Kang Tu   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Szu-Nian Yang   ^{11, 12, 13} , MD ;   Ping-Tao Tseng   ^{14, 15, 16} , MD ;   Tien-Wei Hsu   ^{17, 18 *} , MD ;   Chih-Sung Liang   ^{19, 20 *} , MD ;   Kuan-Pin Su   ^{21, 22, 23} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Nursing, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan

² Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

³ Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

⁸ Department of Neurology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

⁹ Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

¹⁰ Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

¹¹ Department of Psychiatry, Tri-service Hospital, Beitou branch, Taipei, Taiwan

¹² Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Taoyuan General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

¹³ Graduate Institute of Health and Welfare Policy, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

¹⁴ Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

¹⁵ Department of Psychology, College of Medical and Health Science, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

¹⁶ Prospect Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology and Neurology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

¹⁷ Department of Psychiatry, E-Da Dachang Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

¹⁸ Department of Psychiatry, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

¹⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Tri-service Hospital, Beitou branch, Taipei, Taiwan

²⁰ Department of Psychiatry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

²¹ College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

²² Mind-Body Interface Laboratory, China Medical University and Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

²³ An-Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan

*these authors contributed equally