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In other cases, they reflected differences similar to those that might arise between human experts. All models provided contradictory answers for the same case at least once. Taken together, these risks of false negatives, false positives and internal inconsistencies presently prevent the use of GAI models in conducting forensic medical assessments. Beyond these concerns, we doubt that the current functioning of GAI models, which relies on probabilistic content generation, is suited to forensic expertise and its demand for rigorous reasoning. 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