Researchers made up a fake eye disease to fool AI, it worked — and that's the worrying part
A team of Swedish researchers created an entirely fictional eye condition called bixonimania to test whether AI chatbots could distinguish fact from fabrication. Instead, several leading AI models accepted the disease as real, raising fresh concerns about misinformation, medical advice and the reliability of large language models.
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