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.
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.
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I thought that was duncen trussell on the cover. I figured a book about mushrooms seems like something he’d make.
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.
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.
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.
Ohhhh shit, this explains that Russian rocket scientist!
He shoots, he scores!
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.
Mmm boletes
