• nocturne@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    The eye condition bixonimania doesn’t exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricated—despite obvious clues

    The first clue being an eye condition with the name mania in it, denoting that it is a mental condition.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Citing Star Trek, LotR and Friends as sources should also have been a clue.

      I do wonder whether the studies that cited theirs were actually AI generated themselves….