Post #1193010
2026-04-13 11:57 UTC
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
> Within weeks of her uploading information about the condition, attributed to a fictional author, major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition as if it were real. ... Even more troublingly, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. .. this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.
Replies (2)
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@elgringomexicano@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 12:57
@EricCarroll Are we about to see a Sokal Affair in the sciences? 😂
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@PeterLG@theblower.au 2026-04-13 14:51
@EricCarroll Interesting just how fast the LLMs picked up the bogus information and started utilising it. Once it's in the trained data, it's bloody hard to remove it.