Mastodawn

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?

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@johnrogers.bsky.social

Once upon a time, some of the worst people in the world saw the directions things were going in and said "this free and accurate info for all….is bad for us, we can't compete with it! We need to muddy the waters and roll this out FAST AND HARD"

And they came up with

Automated Idiocy
and/or
Augmented Imbecility