Post #1545233

2026-04-22 21:26 UTC

1. Invent an illness; 2. Put up a couple of preprints about it; 3. See AI companies&#39; web crawlers swallow it hook, line, and sinker whole; 4. LLMs start telling users that the condition is real. WTF. 5. See published papers cite them, likely from authors using LLMs to write them. WTAF. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y #LLMFail #LLMs #chatbots #Bixonimania

Replies (11)

@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca 2026-04-22 21:27

@albertcardona "you've got RWSD. Right-wing super dumb. You got infected by your AI girlfriend"

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@knutson_brain@sfba.social 2026-04-22 21:42

@albertcardona

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@knutson_brain@sfba.social 2026-04-22 21:43

@albertcardona #ArtificialStupidity : Fake disease edition

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@elduvelle@neuromatch.social 2026-04-22 22:05

@albertcardona I wish my own papers were taken up by the literature that easily..

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@trabern@mas.to 2026-04-22 22:37

@albertcardona @hjhornbeck Lab leak. New kind.

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@anne_twain@theblower.au 2026-04-22 23:43

@albertcardona LLMs have no crap filter.

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@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 00:28

@albertcardona But ... what if some idiot hooks up AI to gear that starts *synthesizing* it....

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@Szescstopni@circumstances.run 2026-04-23 01:27

@albertcardona CC @davidgerard

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@jhertzli@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-24 04:49

@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz Cf. https://xkcd.com/978/

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@dbaplanb@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-13 13:37

@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz The made up author's name is hilarious and should have been a tell: Lazljiv Izgubljenovic translates loosely from Bosnian to Lying Nowhereman

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@chrisp@cyberplace.social 2026-05-13 22:20

@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz "Hi Dell tech support? ChatGPT says that my computer has the ID10T virus"

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