Fake Bugs Animation
How we minted our "fake bugs": We programmatically stitched together Latin roots and taxonomic endings to forge binomial names that look legitimate but are absent from NCBI, LPSN, ATCC, and every other recognised database. This synthetic, ground-truth negative set lets us ask: can an LLM tell an authentic species from a skilfully fabricated one?
Escherichia
coli
Real bacterial species