People are crazy and times are strange.

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Liam seems a touch hysterical. If we have learnt anything today, it is that Liam hates EVs, but positively cannot cope with EVs powered by the sun. Steady on, Liam. You’ll pull through.

The following has been largely sourced from Sherele Moody, journalist and femicide researcher. Founder of the Red Heart movement. The post concerns Fatima Payman. It should not matter at this point what side of political spectrum you are leaning to - what should matter is how Senator Payman is being treated online and how you react to it - because it speaks to your views on the larger issues of misogyny, racism and hate that have festered in our online communities and have been pushed by the media, public figures and particular politicians towards women. Senator Payman is expecting a baby and has been posting about the stages of her pregnancy online. She is understandably and naturally excited about the arrival of her child - as most women would be - and wanted to share her news online. Her posts have been inundated with “racist and sexist hate commentary - mainly from white men”. The world we live in continues to enable these disgusting tirades from malignant and grown-ass puerile men - but you can attract two years’ jail for mentioning something about rivers and seas publicly and online. This world not only enables hate and racism, it enables and desensitises hate and violence towards women. It allows pathetic individuals like these men to thrive online and in our communities and ALWAYS, ALWAYS exacerbates violence towards women. This is absolutely not okay. We should be speaking out against all forms of violence and disrespect against women. The abuse aimed at Senator Payman offers us a chance to take a good look at ourselves and do just that. Toxic masculinity is allowed to thrive online unabated. How would you feel if this was your daughter, wife, sister, mother, another female relative or a friend treated in this way? Would you speak out even if this was a stranger and you knew it was wrong? This IS hate speech. Why is it not treated as such? This is setting a dangerous precedent. Acceptance of abuse of women is enabling violence.

46 out of 47 One Nation candidates in the SA election failed to get elected. That's a 98% failure rate..

Ah facts! So, the patient refused to go to hospital even though the ambos said she should.They can’t make the decision to deny care. So daughter said she would take her to hospital in her car.The daughter lied.Shameful. Elderly fear going to hospital in case they don’t come out.

“I put a 20% tariff… I reduced it by 10%.” — Trump’s Air Force One recap of Xi meeting 🇨🇳

“U should have been thrown in an oven” I thought I’d seen peak rabid Zionist… turns out there’s worse. My Gawd!!!

NOW THAT DONNY SHUT DOWN THE GOVT, WE MUST FIRE THESE GOVT EMPLOYEES: TRUMP’S FACE PAINTER, HAIR FLUFFER, SHOE LIFT INSERTER, DIAPER CHANGER, DIETICIAN, LOBOTOMIST, PERSONAL TRAINER, ENGLISH TEACHER, AND THE GYNECOLOGIST WHO TREATS HIS NECK. (SAD)

If anyone looks closely enough at the QLD LNP - it becomes very apparent that they are using their political position as a means to syphon as much money off as they possibly can - not only out of the QLD treasury - but from as many favour-seeking donors as possible. You can’t tell me that all this money changing hands isn’t going to result in some pretty big kickbacks down the track for donors, corporations and LNP MPs. This month it has been reported that corporate donors are paying $250,000+ per day for private meetings with David Crisafulli. The LNP government are selling 15-minute meetings with premier Crisafulli to corporate donors and lobbyists. In August this year it was reported that 15-minute time slots were going for around $8800 at an LNP fundraiser. Just imagine, if you can, how much money the QLD LNP are making from corporate donors, LNP donors, vested interests and ripping the ass out of funding that should be going into services like healthcare, education and infrastructure? .. and then imagine what kind of outcomes these “donors” will be expecting from the QLD LNP in the next three years - and beyond? This is NOT good governance. This is corruption. This is worse than Campbell Newman. This is Joh-era Mark II shytefokery. There is no way that some of this skulduggery is legal… … but yeh, persecute the CFMEU in QLD for “corruption” 🙄