Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists invented a fake dis...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

@johnrogers.bsky.social I hope everyone is getting their #bixonimania booster shots
@Twotired @johnrogers.bsky.social no need, bixonimania is cured by Vitamin B13.
@theothersimo @johnrogers.bsky.social B13, B14… whatever it takes.