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AI Is Writing Books About Foraging. What Could Go Wrong? (civileats.com)

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[-] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 54 points 8 months ago

Horrific painful death from liver failure when the books lead people to eat the wrong mushrooms

Destruction of ecosystems by people unfamiliar with how to responsibly forage

Flooding of wrong and plagiarized information, drowning out experts and actual real, correct information

There's literally no positive side of this. At all.

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 11 points 8 months ago

Darwin awards will benefit - if that's the right term.

[-] Gnugit@aussie.zone 22 points 8 months ago

I feel for the smart kids or eagar adults that want to learn and get caught up in this.

Darwin awards is a little harsh and I am a huge Darwin awards fan myself.

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 12 points 8 months ago

I see your point, but anyone with an ounce of intelligence will steer well clear of these.

That said, Amazon should be held responsible for deliberately promoting false and dangerous information.

[-] antizero99@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 8 months ago

It's not that easy to steer clear of. I've bought a couple of books on other topics from Amazon and realized when they arrived that they weren't worth the cost of the paper they were printed on. It's easy enough to notice it's bullshit, it's harder to avoid spending money and time on them in the first place.

[-] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 17 points 8 months ago

This right here. Especially in a market completely flooded by this shit, and everything looks the same, it makes it look like it has legitimacy. It makes finding authentic info nearly impossible. Even for a super tech-savvy crowd that might know what markets are being devoured by AI pablum, sorting through the shit is a monumental task. Your average person isn't going to be able to do that.

People will be fooled because they're already being fooled, and it's not their fault. It's not some far off thing. It's already happening. And blasting people in the face with a firehose of this shit is the goal: don't let anyone have an opportunity to be able to tell the good from the bad. Bury everything in the sludge.