Generative artificial intelligence (AI) marks a shift from information retrieval to interpretive synthesis, operating at a scale and fidelity previously confined to clinical reasoning. By synthesising symptoms, comparing alternatives, and articulating uncertainty, some of these generative AI systems can generate explanations that resemble diagnostic reasoning and can be experienced by users as informal second opinions in medicine.1,2
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