Quality and readability of AI Chatbot responses to frequently asked questions from patients undergoing progressive collapsing foot deformity surgery: a comparative study of ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
AI chatbots produce generally accurate baseline information on PCFD surgery, with Perplexity showing significantly higher expert-rated accuracy and clarity than the other platforms-contrary to the hypothesis of comparable accuracy-while readability remains uniformly inadequate for all platforms, as hypothesized.