Nature, Published online: 07 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01100-y

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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    22 days ago

    A bunch of major LLM’s fell for this, and later waffled upon whether one should be skeptical or not. Almost like every time the fake disease got mentioned, an LLM made a new determination about what it was. In a way, good, such that understanding can evolve. In another way, troubling, as in it didn’t learn anything from past errors.