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Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real (opens in new tab)

Covers Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was realCovered by 4 sources including reason.com, lemmy.ml

The eye condition bixonimania doesn't exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricated—despite obvious clues

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