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The journals the scientist submitted had a fake university, explicitly fake people, references to the simpsons and star trek, etc Most doctors would not believ
by simmerup 6mo ago
The journals the scientist submitted had a fake university, explicitly fake people, references to the simpsons and star trek, etc
Most doctors would not believe that, and would also consider any new eye disease they’d never see in real life with scepticism
- kenjackson 6mo agoLLMs will need to develop a notion of trustworthiness. Interesting that part of the process of learning isn’t just learning, but also learning what to learn and how much value to put into data that crosses your path.
- hoppyhoppy2 6mo agoJournals? The article says the article was uploaded to 2 preprint servers.
- simmerup 6mo agoSorry, even worse then I got confused because a journal referenced them > The experiment’s reach has now spread into the published medical literature. The bixonimania research has been cited by a handful of researchers, including a study that appeared in Cureus, a journal published by Springer Nature, the publisher of Nature, by researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in Mullana, India (S. Banchhor et al. Cureus 16, e74625 (2024); retraction 18, r223 (2026)). (Nature’s news team is editorially independent of its publisher.)