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Sometimes Seek Is Waaaaay Off (i.imgur.com)

submitted 8 months ago by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/mushrooms@lemmy.world

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think identifying mushrooms with these apps is a fool’s errand at this point. They are almost always wrong, unless it’s something very obvious and distinctive.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As someone who is learning(because I am interested, not to try and eat) it usually gets me close, and somewhere to start… Usually.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well maybe your experience has been different from mine but the suggestions I get are usually very wrong. You can absolutely use it as a jumping off point for further research and verification but I am wary of people thinking that these apps are at all accurate for mushrooms. There was just an article of a guy who ate destroying angels because his app ID’d them as giant puffballs. This is not a level of accuracy that I can endorse when the consequences can be life or death.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Seek specifically has a warning as soon as you open the camera to start an identification. I personally would not trust it enough for consumption even without the warning.