An AI Chatbot Joined a Mushroom Hunters' FaceBook Group and Dispensed Advice on Cooking Poisonous Mushrooms (gizmodo.com)

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[-] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

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"

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

That's really interesting, thanks for sharing the paper! Ethnomycology is such a fun field.

[-] hexbee@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

That's what we get for letting a bunch of tech bros run our social infrastructure...

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

It definitely seems dangerous to let them near anything remotely edible.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I said it before and I’ll say it again: I thought techbros were supposed to be smart.

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

“I’m very good at specific types of math. That must mean I’m a genius in every field and don’t need to learn anything about them first!”
-STEM brain

[-] morte@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

amogus

[-] Firstnamebunchofnumbers@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

MORE FUEL FOR THE AI SLOP MACHINE!!!!!!!

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

AI is grey goo for technology

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

An LLM that can also roboform to make its own accounts, at this time of year? Located entirely within your article??

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Murderbots in my lifetime. I never dared to dream this dark.

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