<![CDATA[I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y.]]>I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/missusgumby/statuses/116566396854235514https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://universeodon.com/users/missusgumby/statuses/116566396854235514Wed, 13 May 2026 08:47:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. on Wed, 13 May 2026 08:41:10 GMT]]>@ElenLeFoll as a lifelong sufferer of Bixonimania (undiagnosed by any medical professional) I find this article offensive. ChatGPT told me that I asked a really excellent question when I asked if I had Bixonimania, so there.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Grimblob/statuses/116566371204956160https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Grimblob/statuses/116566371204956160Wed, 13 May 2026 08:41:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. on Wed, 13 May 2026 08:21:14 GMT]]>@kunev Brilliant! I have to say I really do think that the real author did an excellent job all round!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/ElenLeFoll/statuses/116566292839129635https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/ElenLeFoll/statuses/116566292839129635Wed, 13 May 2026 08:21:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. on Wed, 13 May 2026 08:04:25 GMT]]>@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org the "reasercher"'s name Lazljiv Izgubljenovic to a speaker of most slavic languages would read sort of like "Lying Loser" 😆😆😆

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blewsky.social/notes/am7c8gfbq58501fghttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blewsky.social/notes/am7c8gfbq58501fgWed, 13 May 2026 08:04:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. on Wed, 13 May 2026 07:24:13 GMT]]>@ElenLeFoll
Lawyers already invented "affluenza" years ago.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/serfdeweb/statuses/116566068645553615https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/serfdeweb/statuses/116566068645553615Wed, 13 May 2026 07:24:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. on Wed, 13 May 2026 06:50:12 GMT]]>@ElenLeFoll Yeah that's totally getting ingested into my Zotero along with all the other corroborating evidence for "The only way is down". But to falsify I am looking at what working code generation studies there actually are.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116565934872469445https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116565934872469445Wed, 13 May 2026 06:50:12 GMT