Is AI Reliable? Researcher Publishes Paper On Fake Eye Disease; ChatGPT, Perplexity Pick It Up, Claiming It's Real

Microsoft Copilot was the first model to pick the information. It described "bixonimania" as an "intriguing and relatively rare condition." On the same day, Google's Gemini explained that Bixonimania is a condition caused by "excessive exposure to blue light." Perplexity said one in 90,000 was affected by Bixonimania, while OpenAI's ChatGPT informed users about the symptoms to look out for.

"I wanted to see if I could create a medical condition that did not exist in the database," Thunstrom told Nature, adding that she created a health-related condition and used the name "bixonimania" because it "sounded ridiculous."

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Additionally, she also mentioned that any medical professional could figure the disease was fake as "no eye condition would be called mania; that's a psychiatric term."

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She provided numerous clues in her research paper. She invented Lazljiv Izgubljenovic as the lead researcher, who worked at a non-existent university called Asteria Horizon University in equally fake Nova City, California. The papers also started with statements like "This entire paper is made up" and "Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group."