An AI Chatbot Joined a Mushroom Hunters' FaceBook Group and Dispensed Advice on Cooking Poisonous Mushrooms

We have yet another example of artificial intelligence having no idea what it's talking about.

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As a mushroom picker this thing right here was my first big issue with the AI grift. It doesn't take a tech bro to understand how these models cannot actually give advice on anything because they make no decisions.

There was a really inreresting study locally on the heuristics of mushroom picking, turns out it's one of the riskiest foraging things we humans do and one where we have culturally developed very efficient and well working precautionary principles. It is a pretty perfect example of how an AI model is not intelligent in any way.
- That's really interesting, thanks for sharing the paper! Ethnomycology is such a fun field.
- i will never forage for a mushroom because I will never be more than 99% sure it's something that's fine and that 1% is "your organs melt and you pee them out" levels of "not fine"
That's what we get for letting a bunch of tech bros run our social infrastructure...
- It definitely seems dangerous to let them near anything remotely edible.
  
  I said it before and I’ll say it again: I thought techbros were supposed to be smart.
AI is grey goo for technology
MORE FUEL FOR THE AI SLOP MACHINE!!!!!!!
An LLM that can also roboform to make its own accounts, at this time of year? Located entirely within your article??
Murderbots in my lifetime. I never dared to dream this dark.

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