Science communicator with McGill University's Office for Science and Society. Separating sense from nonsense. Not all studies are created equal. McGill.ca/OSS
Jonathan Jarry
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... and, of course, because it's 2026, this name was also used to spread cancer misinformation in an AI-written book about alternative medicine.
This is a wild story about a sort of AI-generated creepypasta, extracted from an unsafe data set and now served by different AI models as a universal protagonist or side character.
You can bet execs at a movie studio are meeting today to discuss a potential Elias Thorne film.
Coming this Friday to a @mcgilloss.bsky.social near you....
This is deeply concerning….
According to the DynaMed medical database, breast cancer represents about 0.2% of all cancers affecting men.
It's rare... but it's not *that* rare.
I find it fascinating to watch people *decide* that an image they don't like must be AI and use anomaly hunting and confirmation bias to convince themselves that they're right.
I'm seeing examples where they were completely wrong.
We're great at post-hoc rationalizations.
Cc: @etvpod.bsky.social
