Maybe you shouldn't.
European scientists created a fake disease called "bixonimania" to see if it could trick AI. They succeeded.
European scientists created a fake disease called "bixonimania" to see if it could trick AI. They succeeded.
The condition doesn't appear in the standard medical literature — because it doesn't exist. It's the invention of a team led by Almira Osmanovic Thunström, a medical researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who dreamt up the skin condition and then uploaded two fake studies about it to a preprint server in early 2024.
Osmanovic Thunström "carried out this unusual experiment" to see if she could fool AI large language models into believing it was real. As she put it: "I wanted to see if I can create a medical condition that did not exist in the database."


