Check Your Sources Like You're Using Wikipedia 20 Years Ago!
"History doesn't repeat; it rhymes." In the latest example of history rapping, we have AI hallucinations and unable to tell that an academic paper is bogus, even when the paper actually says this is made up. This happened with a paper posted online in 2024 described an eye condition the researchers made up, bixonimania: ... Osmanovic Thunström planted many clues in the preprints to alert readers that the work was fake. Izgubljenovic works at a non-existent university called Asteria Horizon University in the equally fake Nova City, California. One paper’s acknowledgements thank “Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise”. Both papers say they were funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation for its work in advanced trickery. This works is a part of a larger funding initiative from the University of Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad”. The paper wen...
