When Cow Urine Cures Constipation on YouTube: Limits of LLMs in Detecting Culture-specific Health Misinformation

A computer science research paper investigating how large language models perform at detecting health misinformation rooted in cultural or regional context. Using YouTube cow urine treatment claims as a concrete example, the authors demonstrate that state-of-the-art LLMs have significant blind spots when evaluating content embedded in specific cultural beliefs or local medical practices.