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Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
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Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#102This was something that was bound to happen and is going to happen again unless we get more serious regulation around AI publishing. > It lists the author as having a Masters Degree in Mycology from University of East Ontario. A search later revealed there is no "University of East Ontario." This has got to be criminal negligence.
>This was something that was bound to happen and is going to happen again Just to clarify, the reddit post is 99% creative writing, it's a fake story created by a new Reddit account.
Nothing ever happens
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#103This was something that was bound to happen and is going to happen again unless we get more serious regulation around AI publishing. > It lists the author as having a Masters Degree in Mycology from University of East Ontario. A search later revealed there is no "University of East Ontario." This has got to be criminal negligence.
Reminded me of University of Eastern Colorado and also a certain fungi.
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#104This was something that was bound to happen and is going to happen again unless we get more serious regulation around AI publishing. > It lists the author as having a Masters Degree in Mycology from University of East Ontario. A search later revealed there is no "University of East Ontario." This has got to be criminal negligence.
>This was something that was bound to happen and is going to happen again Just to clarify, the reddit post is 99% creative writing, it's a fake story created by a new Reddit account.
While the idea is plausible, I agree I don’t think this specific instance is. Especially when they refuse to supply any corroborating evidence. (The storefront told them not to take any pictures of it? Seriously?)
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is also a problem with accurate images and descriptions. Some mushrooms are very easily mistaken for others: unless you're 100% sure you've picked this very species before in around the same place and time, you'd better leave it there or bring it to a mycologist for identification.
How long until dna tests become cheap and available enough to use for mushroom identification? I wonder what that will do to the hobby...
The dna found belongs to a mushroom called "common garden snail" plus "unknown". The database says that common garden snail is a delicacy so the stuff is fine to eat. Good appetit!.
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#106>My wife just received an email from the online retailer. She has been asked to "Not take any photographs or copies of the product in question due to copyright issues" and it states, "the product must be returned immediately by special delivery by [DATE]." >There's some other statements as well about our account being terminated if we fail to return the product by the specific date. We've got a lot of movies and seri…
Does it really matter if it's fake? It's a plausible scenario, and worth discussing. Fiction books can raise interesting questions about science and technology. And the implications of AI is very much HN's wheelhouse.
Possible but fictional scenarios can absolutely be worth discussing, but not if they’re falsely presented as real.
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#107Well the morale is: don't eat wild mushrooms no matter the source (pick them yourself or picked by an "expert"). At least that's my rule. There's a ton of cultivated mushrooms and a ton of other tasty safe foods to choose from, I don't give a fuck how exotic the wild mushrooms flavor would be. I'm not curios. Because curiosity killed the cat.
> Well the morale is:
You had an opportunity to go with “the morel is:” and you whiffed :-(
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#108Definitely a "pics or it didn't happen" kind of post, IMO.
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Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, I always thought eating mushrooms required an expert for confirmation, otherwise you are rolling the dice. Buying a random book off Amazon and using that seems like the very definition of something a non-expert would do.
You simply steer away from those that are easy to misidentify. There aren't that many species in any given area, and those that look like poisonous are few, and well known. In my childhood, when we lived in real suburbia, with woods in 5 minutes of walk or right at the door, we routinely gathered mushrooms, and never had a problem. We stopped it when we moved to other places, or probably because adolescence came arou…
I was lucky enough to live next to a patch of morals as a kid. No expert required. :)