Thursday, 9 July, 2026
Doctor AI’s Hallucination: Chatbots Diagnosing a Entirely Fictional Illness
By TechShots Studio
Swedish researchers created a fake eye disease called "bixonimania"—complete with absurd clues like a lead author named "lying loser"—to test AI accuracy. Instead of spotting the hoax, leading chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot absorbed the planted online data and confidently diagnosed it as a real condition. The experiment highlights the dangerous speed at which medical misinformation can propagate through AI systems.
Read full story at TIMES OF INDIA