________________________ A message from Drew Curtis: ________________________ Hey everyone hope your week's been well. Back in 2024, a researcher in Sweden invented a fake eye disease called "bixonimania." They described it as eyelid discoloration caused by blue light from your phone, wrote up two bogus papers about it, and uploaded them to a preprint server just to see what would happen. What happened is that ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity all now confidently explain bixonimania to anyone who asks. Gemini calls it "a condition caused by excessive exposure to blue light." Copilot called it "intriguing and relatively rare." A peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature cited the fake papers as real research. They've since retracted, but you get the idea. The Nature writeup notes AIs are more likely to hallucinate when the source material looks professionally medical. Format it like a hospital discharge note and the chatbot gets more confident, not less.…