Stockholm. The fake eye disease named 'Bixonimania', created to fool AI chatbots, has confused not only technology but also people. In 2024, a team of researchers led by Almira Osmanovic Thunstrom from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, created this fictional disease to test how easily chatbots believe misinformation. Within weeks of the research team placing two fake studies about 'Bixonimania' on the internet, popular AI platforms like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's ChatGPT began presenting it as a real disease. Copilot called it a 'rare and interesting condition' while Gemini even claimed it was caused by excessive exposure to...