Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
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#3Do we believe this story? It's a Reddit "LegalAdvice" thread. It's not morel season in the UK right now; false morels are also March-May produce.
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#4That’s to be expected from genAI. Im sure more of this is to follow and these AI companies will have to come up with disclaimers and checkoff boxes (CYA type) “I understood these answers are likely wrong.” Even better, they should mention LLMs do not understand what they generate.
Edit: Wait, this is a book made up with LLMs. I think the author should be on the hook for publishing unless they added a disclaimer their book has no grounds in reality.
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#5Do we believe this story? It's a Reddit "LegalAdvice" thread. It's not morel season in the UK right now; false morels are also March-May produce.
The poster doesn’t claim they ate morels. The section about morels was an example for something unrelated to the poisoning.
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#6This 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.
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#7Do we believe this story? It's a Reddit "LegalAdvice" thread. It's not morel season in the UK right now; false morels are also March-May produce.
Hey, this is a book published with errors generated with LLMs. You can look it up
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#8Do we believe this story? It's a Reddit "LegalAdvice" thread. It's not morel season in the UK right now; false morels are also March-May produce.
There have been quite a few articles corroborating the existence of books like this, the only part that needs believing is that someone actually used the books as advertised.
https://www.vox.com/24141648/ai-ebook-grift-mushroom-foragin...
https://fortune.com/2023/09/03/ai-written-mushroom-hunting-g...
Re: Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
#9Do we believe this story? It's a Reddit "LegalAdvice" thread. It's not morel season in the UK right now; false morels are also March-May produce.
I would take any story from reddit with a huge grain of salt, but even if this case is not real there are real AI generated books that pretend to be real books, and mycology books in particular have had attention brought to them due to the dangers inherent to the misinformation they may contain.
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#10This is why generative AI simply doesn't work for anything with actual consequences. As it is right now, it's a glorified autocomplete, and one that doesn't understand the context it's being used in at all.
That's fine for things like stock images or text on random product pages, but for things like this? Yeah, the very concept is just risky as hell.