"The experiment highlights how profoundly AI is changing the face of human knowledge. AI slop has invaded almost every facet of the peer-review process. Researchers have previously found that a vast portion of scientific papers being indexed by journals each year could be heavily relying on AI, raising thorny questions over their validity, not to mention the erosion of rigor and trust."
"Despite all that, AI chatbots including Microsoft's Bing Copilot, Google's Gemini, and Perplexity's AI search engine became convinced that 'bixonimania' was real."
In 2024, researchers invented a fictional disease named bixonimania, claiming it was caused by excessive screen time and eye rubbing. They uploaded two fake studies to a preprint server, which were soon cited by AI models like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT as if they were real. This experiment reveals the impact of AI on scientific knowledge and raises concerns about the validity of AI-generated content. Despite obvious red flags in the fake papers, AI chatbots accepted bixonimania as a legitimate condition, highlighting the risks of misinformation in health advice.
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