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Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real (www.smithsonianmag.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 59 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

The first clue being an eye condition with the name mania in it, denoting that it is a mental condition.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 15 points 14 hours ago

Citing Star Trek, LotR and Friends as sources should also have been a clue.

I do wonder whether the studies that cited theirs were actually AI generated themselves….