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Researchers Create Fictional Illness; Chatbots Diagnose It as Real in Nature Study
Two preprints about a fictional illness called bixonimania were taken down from the Preprints.org server on 10 April. Popular chatbots had been diagnosing users with the made-up condition based on common eye symptoms over the past 18 months. The illness was created by a researcher along with fake studies funded by fictional entities.
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Org server on 10 April, according to a Nature report. A researcher created the fictional illness named bixonimania and produced fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation, the University of the Fellowship of the Ring, and the Galactic Triad. Large language models warned people that the fictional illness bixonimania was real, as detailed in the Nature coverage.
Millions of people spend too much time staring at screens and being bombarded with blue light, which can lead to symptoms like sore, itchy eyes and pinkish eyelids. In the past 18 months, typing symptoms of sore, itchy eyes and pinkish eyelids into popular chatbots resulted in responses diagnosing bixonimania, Nature reported.
