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Artificial intelligence is only as reliable as the information it ingests, and the latest bixonimania experiment is a vivid reminder that confidence is not the same thing as accuracy. A researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Almira Osmanovic Thunström, invented a fake eye condition and...

The AI era’s credibility crisis arrived not as a single catastrophic failure but as a quiet, systemic infection: chatbots citing sources that do not exist. The most visible example — Grok citing “Grokipedia” as if it were a real reference — has exposed a cascading weakness in generative AI...