
Paolo Toffanello
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Paolo Toffanello
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ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke.
Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics.
And it told patients to see a specialist.
The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it?
She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility.
Then she waited.
She did not have to wait long.
By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness.
One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist.
Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it.
They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation.
Then it got worse.
Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources.
A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record.
It was only retracted after the hoax became public.
Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates.
Here is the scale of what this means.
More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions.
Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026.
An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information.
Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day.
Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything.
The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot?
The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level.
It was designed to be caught.
It was not caught.
The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule.
40 million people. Every day.
And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong.
Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 ·
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@FRFuxa @petunianelsole @SignorErnesto Corriere di Bologna, Resto del Carlino, Sky tg 24. Tutti parlano di fonti investigative nel riportare queste notizie
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@petunianelsole @SignorErnesto Da dove hai reperito queste informazioni?
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A el Koudri sono stati sequestrati cinque telefoni, quattro computer, due hard disk, almeno due chiavette usb, un tablet, una playstation e altri accessori. Nella casa sono stati trovati anche oltre un centinaio di fogli manoscritti, due agende, block notes, oltre ad un biglietto con password per le criptovalute.
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Você sabia que, até hoje, cientistas registraram apenas uma única vez o deslocamento visível de uma falha tectônica principal em tempo real?
O evento aconteceu em 2025, em Myanmar, quando uma câmera de segurança captou o exato momento em que a Falha de Sagaing deslizou vários metros lateralmente durante um grande terremoto. As imagens permitiram que pesquisadores medissem, quadro a quadro, a velocidade e a dinâmica da ruptura sísmica, algo considerado praticamente impossível até então.
O vídeo se tornou objeto de diversos estudos científicos e já é tratado como a primeira evidência visual direta de uma ruptura principal de falha tectônica registrada com esse nível de clareza.
Fontes:
- “Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera” — arXiv
- “Video-based Direct Time Series Measurement of Along-Strike Slip on the Coseismic Surface Rupture During the 2025 Mw7.7 Myanmar Earthquake” — arXiv
- “Curved fault slip captured by CCTV video during the 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake” — EarthArXiv
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@Adamowicz_Magda @FabioGhironi Condivido ogni tua singola parola e sono felice di sapere che si tratta di un sentimento diffuso. Buon lavoro
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Mało już żyje ludzi, którzy to pamiętają.
80 lat temu cała Europa była gruzem, świeżymi grobami ponad 40 milionów ludzi i traumą wszystkich, którzy zdołali przeżyć.
Ledwie 5 lat po wojnie – pewien francuski minister wypowiedział kilka zdań, które brzmiały jak szaleństwo: że Francja i Niemcy powinny połączyć przemysł stalowy i węglowy. Żeby się nie dało już zrobić czołgów bez zgody sąsiada.
Było to 9 maja 1950 roku. Z tego desperackiego – i jednocześnie wizjonerskiego – pomysłu wyrosło coś, czego nikt nie przewidział. Unia Europejska.
Wytykanie jej niedoskonałości i błędów przy jednoczesnym niedostrzeganiu tego, że dzięki niej Polska jest najsilniejsza i najbogatsza w całej swojej historii – to nieuczciwa manipulacja. Żadne państwo nie jest doskonałe – tym bardziej 27 państw godzących swoje interesy.
Antyeuropejska dezinformacja jest niestety często inspirowana i finansowana przez wielkich przeciwników UE: Chiny, Rosję, teraz też USA i oligarchów internetowych. Jest na to mnóstwo dowodów.
Wszyscy oni wolą rozgrywać 27 rywalizujących ze sobą albo nawet pokłóconych państw, niż konkurować z jedną silną UE.
Pamiętajmy o tym, zanim zalajkujemy albo podamy dalej kolejny fejk o UE.
#DzieńEuropy #EuropeDay #9maja
Na zdjęciu odbudowa Warszawy ze zniszczeń wojennych, 1948 (PAP)

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Qual è il tuo autore preferito di #fantascienza? Ce n'è uno che ha acceso in te l'interesse per l'esplorazione spaziale?

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Quando alla Casa Bianca c'era un Presidente degli Stati Uniti e un leader vero dell'Occidente 🇪🇺🇺🇸
▶️Ascoltate le parole di Ronald #Reagan
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@dariodangelo91 Bellissimo, siiii, l’ITALIA ai mondiali. Se però ci riammettono, per spregio, a giocare per la Nazionale ci vado io con gli amici del centro, ubriachi marci e bestemmiando ad ogni tocco palla degli avversari (ovvero sempre). Damigiana a bordo campo per i rabbocchi 🤪
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@FPanunzi @dorinileonardo Il mio tapis roulant nemmeno arriva a 21 😂
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@dorinileonardo Sul tapis roulant, 21 km/h li ho retti meno di 10 secondi.
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@rusembitaly A piazzale Loreto dovevano convocarti. Porci assassini
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✍️Alexey Paramonov, Ambasciatore della Federazione Russa in Italia (t.me/ambnonportapen…):
L’incontro ha offerto l’opportunità per uno scambio di vedute sulle ragioni che impediscono al dialogo diplomatico tra Russia e Italia di svilupparsi in modo costruttivo.

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@NinaRicci_us @BioBite_ Io questi li blocco. Infestano linternett con ste schifezze
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