Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Do your eyes get dry, itchy after staring at screens? Well, you could have “bixonimania,” or at least that is what an AI chatbot may have told you sometime last year. Bixonimania is a fake disease researchers invented to see just how easily artificial intelligence chatbots absorb information and repeat it to users.
In the latest episode of Science Quickly, host Rachel Feltman speaks with the researcher behind “bixonomania,” Almira Osmanovic Thunström. Listen to the whole conversation on our channel.
🎤: Rachel Feltman
📷: Kelso Harper
🎞️: Marta Hill
🎵: Getty Images
#ai #aichatbot #healthcare #artificialintelligence #research
Do your eyes get dry, itchy after staring at screens? Well, you could have “bixonimania,” or at least that is what an AI chatbot may have told you sometime last year. Bixonimania is a fake disease researchers invented to see just how easily artificial intelligence chatbots absorb information and repeat it to users.
In the latest episode of Science Quickly, host Rachel Feltman speaks with the researcher behind “bixonomania,” Almira Osmanovic Thunström. Listen to the whole conversation on our channel.
🎤: Rachel Feltman
📷: Kelso Harper
🎞️: Marta Hill
🎵: Getty Images
#ai #aichatbot #healthcare #artificialintelligence #research
