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More accurate, albeit less sensational headline: "Blindly following instructions from an LLM would have killed me." Not exactly shocking if you take into consideration that at the core, they're simply number predictors.
Add vinegar and this is the dressing my dad has made for decades now.
More accurate, albeit less sensational headline: "Blindly following instructions from an LLM would have killed me." Not exactly shocking if you take into consideration that at the core, they're simply number predictors.
We know that. The mainstream discussion, use, and personification of LLMs does not suggest that.
I was defending generative AI recently when an article came up about Gemini misidentifying a toxic mushroom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682531 . My thought there was that nearly everyone I know knows that toxic mushrooms are easily misidentified, and there have been lots of famous cases (even if many of them are apocryphal) of mushroom experts meeting their demise from a misidentified mushroom. In this ca…
It's not the oil at issue, as far as I understand, or even the garlic alone. It sounds like the garlic introduces the bacterium and the oil provides plenty of high-energy molecules (fats and some proteins) for explosive growth. Both olive oil and garlic can be stored for a while without issue. Also, I have followed this recipe hundreds of times before with roasted garlic, and it is has not been unsafe or given this r…
The questioner deliberately asked "Can I infuse garlic into olive oil without heating it up?" The only appropriate answer there is "No, not safely", not some long, plausible recipe with perhaps a bizarre caveat on the bottom (as some other commenters have reported seeing) along the lines of "However, some say this recipe may kill you, so you'll probably want to refrigerate it."
I was defending generative AI recently when an article came up about Gemini misidentifying a toxic mushroom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682531 . My thought there was that nearly everyone I know knows that toxic mushrooms are easily misidentified, and there have been lots of famous cases (even if many of them are apocryphal) of mushroom experts meeting their demise from a misidentified mushroom. In this ca…
First, literally 100% of the blog posts, reddit replies, recipe books, and so on, will always list botulism as a potential danger of canning just about anything, but especially the common "garlic infused oil" (just do a Google search). It's unlikely that the model decided to trim/ignore this dangerous caveat (again, found in basically every corpus mentioning garlic infused oil). Maybe the LLM would've mangled the (very important) step of roasting the garlic to dehydrate it, but I very much doubt the health disclaimer would've been omitted.
Second, note that there's no actual conversation link, just a screenshot, adding to my skepticism. Is the screenshot doctored? Who knows. Sure got a lot of attention.
Third, in my experience, LLMs tend to be overly cautious, and not the opposite. I remember a few months ago where getting ChatGPT to teach you "unsafe rust" had a disclaimer if you told the language model you were under 18. Maybe if it was something more obscure, I'd believe the poster, but botulism and long-term storage/canning go hand-in-hand. Like raw eggs and salmonella[1].