Amateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots.
Amazon has become a marketplace for AI-produced tomes that are being passed off as having been written by humans, with travel books among the popular categories for fake work.
Now a number of books have appeared on the online retailer’s site offering guides to wild mushroom foraging that also seem to be written by chatbots. The titles include “Wild Mushroom Cookbook: form [sic] forest to gourmet plate, a complete guide to wild mushroom cookery” and “The Supreme Mushrooms Books Field Guide of the South-West”.
Someone’s going to die following one of these books. If the people who created them can be identified, there should be harsh criminal penalties for doing it.
There should be harsh criminal penalties for Amazon as well.
It would be a fine that could be paid with about an hour’s worth of income.
Edit: Downvoting because you don’t like the truth?
I’m a big believer in changing laws so that when a company commits a serious offense, the individuals responsible end up serving time in prison. Fines are bullshit. If you’re gonna wish for things that aren’t gonna happen anyway, you may as well dream big.
If they are selling it on Amazon Amazon can totally figure out who they are. If someone does following it and charges are pressed they will be found.
There should already be imo. Reckless endangerment or some shit.
That is crazy dangerous. There are some really deadly mushrooms out there. People need to go to prison for this shit.
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lmao that cover is great
I have one of his (Mushrooms of North America?) that’s about an inch and a half thick and gives a comprehensive, more or less academic introduction to the field. Read it 10 or so years back and I’m not dead yet, so.
Written by an AI ten years ago? I didn’t think they were that advanced back then.
I thought that was duncen trussell on the cover. I figured a book about mushrooms seems like something he’d make.
Incredible. I wish I lived in the western US so I had a reason to buy this book. I kind of just want it on a poster.
I’ve ran into a few issues with AI written articles.
One for Assassins Creed Odessey on how to get wood quickly. It listed 5 methods and only 2 of them were in the game.
Another with articles on Baldurs Gate 3 talking about upgrading your equipment. I beat the game twice in 20 hours and never came across the workbench mentioned in the articles. It was at that time the articles were clearly parroting one another with false data.
Twice in 20 hours? Are you sure you didn’t just miss it?
Twice in 20 hours sounds a lot like this person hasn’t played the game at all… maybe that comment was written by AI.
Well, at least those issues don’t kill people.
Everyone worried Skynet would create killer robots but instead they are writing shitty books. A kills a kill I guess.
Ohhhh shit, this explains that Russian rocket scientist!
He shoots, he scores!
Article starts off with “scores 100% on AI detection tests” wtf. They should do a little research on that statement. Even OpenAI gave up trying to detect that shit. It’s not possible. The machines are mimicking human speech. And doing better than many actual human authors. You can’t detect that shit.
These Skynet plots to wiping out the human race are getting really convoluted as they keep making Terminator sequels/prequels. I guess they’re going for the long game by going after the mushroom foragers first.
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Mmm boletes
How can anyone be stupid enough to start picking musrooms based on what a book says? This is a skill that should be taught by an experienced person.
