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Rare disease: woman sees reptiles instead of people, literally

News Science and space 09-04-2025 comment
A resident of the Netherlands suffered from a rare disease, called prosopometamorphopsia, when the brain distorts the visual perception of other people’s faces. 

Psychopathia Machinalis: all 32 types of AI "madness" in a new study

News AI 09-01-2025 comment
American scientists from In a new study, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) described 32 different scenarios, in which AI becomes uncontrollable and starts hallucinating and making other errors. 

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