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We propose several prompts and use them to answer important information on conjunctivitis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our findings show that DeepSeek excels in offering precise and comprehensive information on specific topics related to conjunctivitis. DeepSeek provides detailed explanations and in depth medical insights. In contrast, the ChatGPT model provides generalized public information on the infection, which makes it more suitable for broader and less technical discussions. In this study, DeepSeek achieved a better performance with a 7% hallucination rate compared to ChatGPT's 13%. Claude demonstrated perfect 100% accuracy in binary classification, significantly outperforming ChatGPT's 62.5% accuracy.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>DeepSeek showed limited performance in understanding images dataset on conjunctivitis. 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