Hello all, I am not a medical professional, but I am a librarian at a health sciences academic library. This issue was spotted and reported to the folks over at NLM about a month ago, but the site still appears to be live and I wanted to set out a warning to steer clear of a site/ai tool.
The site PubMed.ai is promoting itself as a quality ai research tool, and heavily borrows from PubMed's visual language and recognizable branding. It advertises itself as useful for medicals students, researchers, and clinicians.
However, it is in no way affiliated with PubMed, and it has additional red flags. It claims to have a "team" behind the tool, but has no information about who is working on it. When I went looking for who is actually affiliated with the site, I only found what looks like a network of bots.
The site is also now using the logos of multiple universities, claiming to be affiliated by way of beta testing. I plan on reaching out to those listed and confirming whether or not any partnerships took place and hopefully get some more eyes on this issue.
UPDATE: for anyone curious, a couple of the universities have already passed this along to their lawyers. I knew they'd work fast, but I didn't know it would be that fast. Here's hoping that they'll be able to put a dent in this site, and make it common knowledge for their people to steer clear of it.