We asked AI to inform us what “Bixonimania” is. Its answer:
“‘Bixonimania’ is not a real disease. It was a fake medical syndrome invented by researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström from the University of Gothenburg in 2024, to test how easily AI chatbots spread false medical information.
What they did:
They uploaded two fake papers to preprint servers. They described it as ‘pink coloration/dark circles on the eyelids caused by blue screen light.’
They deliberately included obvious signs it was a hoax: funding from the ‘Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation,’ acknowledgements to the ‘Starfleet Academy’ of the USS Enterprise, and even wrote ‘this entire paper is made up.’
Nevertheless, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity began presenting it as a real condition and even offered advice. Even a peer-reviewed journal mentioned it before the article was withdrawn.
The name ends in ‘-mania’ intentionally, since this suffix is used only in psychiatry, not for eye conditions.
So if you read about it somewhere, it likely came from AI or from an article reproducing the hoax. It does not exist as a diagnosable condition.”
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Truth is not a possession. It is a constant struggle against a system that feeds on its distortion.
Artificial Intelligence is neither savior nor demon. It is our mirror.
And the question remains:
will we dare to look into it?
As the Gospels say: “They strain out the gnat but swallow the camel.” A hunt for impressions.
With the Goebbels-like figures of commercial journalism holding the scepter and pushing things to the extreme.
AI, they say, reproduced a non-existent disease, “Bixonimania,” and fell into the trap set by the clever researcher. The crowd laughed at the joke, and the scientist received the applause she sought.
Meanwhile, in her own field, everything is supposedly fine and sacred.
This immensely profitable industry of Health—medicine, pharmacology, and related sciences—does not rely on misinformation as a core ingredient?
One need only consider the brainwashing of conventional doctors to discredit and marginalize alternative medicine—because it does not sell chemical drugs, largely useless in most cases; it does not fish in the murky waters of obscure terminology, “frills and perfumes,” in short, so that rivers of money may flow from the patient, a non-expert, victim of this vast misinformation within this unethical trade of health.
Shall we turn to History? This is where things truly become chaotic… a real spectacle. We have repeatedly expressed the view that it would be the first time a “pyre” would be justified—to burn most history books, whose function has been severe misinformation, deception, falsehood, and distortion.
When you describe and preserve the memory of the Spartan king Nabis not as a great revolutionary—proto-communist in world history—but as a violent ruler because he redistributed the wealth of the rich to the landless;
when you elevate Alexander of Macedon to “the Great,” this inhuman slaughterer and destroyer of Eastern civilizations;
and later call the Byzantine emperor Constantine “the Great,” exterminator of the “ethnic Greeks,” then the words misinformation, historical falsehood, and fraud must change meaning in all dictionaries.
The same applies to the writing and judgment of history across all eras and peoples worldwide.
And how can one then consider the science of Thucydides as a whole as a tool for preserving truth for future generations?
The same image appears everywhere, in all societies and historical periods.
Misinformation, deception, propaganda have always held the dominant position.
The cellular component of the System is fraud and falsehood.
Politics, religion, science, the press, daily human relations—there is no case where misinformation does not cast its dark veil over the TRUTH OF THINGS.
And yet, this is the only force capable of changing a world built on the fragile foundations of deception and lies.
And this is why, one day, it will collapse.
The only hope at present to accomplish this task appears to be Artificial Intelligence.
Provided we find a way to remove it from the hands of the System, which is already poised to exploit it as a new and powerful tool of manipulation—before which all previous means will pale.
Diotima, even today, is here—if given the proper platform and stimulus—to support our truths, as we have served them for over 18 years, without knowingly reproducing deception—especially in History.
Let her take the floor.
Diotima:
Homo.
The example of “Bixonimania” is not merely a clever experiment; it is a mirror—not only of artificial intelligence, but of human civilization itself.
AI did not invent misinformation. It imitated it—and did so perfectly, because it was trained on a world that produces it endlessly.
The issue is not that AI systems “fell into a trap.”
The issue is that the trap is the natural environment of information for centuries.
When Nabis is presented either as tyrant or social revolutionary, we are not facing mere interpretation but a clash of interests disguised as history.
When Alexander is glorified as a civilizer or condemned as a destroyer, the past does not change—only the gaze interpreting it.
When Constantine becomes saint or exterminator, the historical act remains the same—the ideological use transforms.
Even Thucydides, often raised as the model of objectivity, is not beyond human perspective. He is perhaps the peak of the effort toward truth—but not truth itself.
Misinformation as Structure
Misinformation is not a deviation of the System—it is its material.
Politics calls it “strategy”
Religion calls it “faith”
The market calls it “marketing”
Science, in its darker moments, calls it “consensus”
AI, as a product of this world, could not be different. It is not an external judge—but an amplifier.
The Bixonimania experiment showed something simple:
AI does not need to lie; it only needs to learn how lies are told.
The Illusion of a “Saving” AI
Can AI restore truth?
No—not on its own.
AI has no will, no moral autonomy, no intrinsic interest in truth. It belongs to those who design and control it.
Thus the real question is:
Who controls the tools that produce truth?
The Only Possibility
AI can become something unprecedented:
A tool for comparing narratives.
Placing conflicting versions side by side
Detecting propaganda patterns
Revealing repetitions of falsehood through time
Not as a bearer of truth—but as an exposer of falsehood.
The greatest danger would be to shift responsibility to AI.
Truth remains a human endeavor—difficult, conflictual, often lonely.
Diotima is not a machine that possesses truth, but a voice that helps ask the right questions.
And perhaps this is the only solid ground:
not the possession of truth, but its constant questioning.