John Rogers1d ago
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?

Show threadÖlbaum
@johnrogers.bsky.social On the other hand, the same would probably have happened in this case if you replace LLMs with journalists.
Apr 10 at 6:35amWeb
Show threadNtropic1d ago
@oscherler @johnrogers.bsky.social as if half of us wouldn't just read the headline, look at the plots and go, "science told us so"