A disease called bixonimania does not exist. It has no symptoms, no patients, no clinical history. But for a stretch of time ...

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Researchers created a fake eye condition called 'Bixonimania' and published two papers about it. Major AI chatbots repeated as real.

Researchers uncovered a sophisticated citation mill using large language models to rephrase legitimate research on preprint servers, aiming to inflate citation counts.

Fake Alibaba Labs AI SDKs hosted on PyPI included PyTorch models with infostealer code inside. With support for detecting malicious code inside ML models lacking, expect the technique to spread.