Google Healthcare AI Model Med‑Gemini Allegedly Produces Non‑Existent 'Basilar Ganglia' Term in Published Output
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Google’s Med‑Gemini healthcare AI reportedly produced the non‑existent term "basilar ganglia" in public launch materials, conflating two distinct brain structures. The error reportedly appeared in both a blog post and an arXiv preprint. Google is reported to have initially edited the blog without acknowledgment, later calling it a typo.
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- patients-whose-care-could-be-affected-by-undetected-ai-hallucinations
- medical-research-community-citing-or-using-erroneous-ai-outputs
- healthcare-professionals-relying-on-aigenerated-diagnostic-content
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AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
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