Field guides have always been of mixed quality. But as more and more handbooks of natural object recognition are written with AI chatbots, the chances of readers getting deadly advice is increasing.
Case in point: mushroom hunting.The Mycological Society of New York recently issued a warning On social media, about Amazon and other retailers offering foraging and identification books written by artificial intelligence “Please only buy books by well-known authors and foragers, it can actually mean life or death,” it says at X wrote on it.
It shared another thread in which an X user called such guides “the deadliest AI scam I’ve ever heard,” adding, “The authors are fabricated, their credentials are fabricated, and their Species ID will kill you.”
In Australia recently, three people died after a family lunch.authorities Suspect Death cap mushrooms are the main culprit in causing the deaths. This invasive species originated in parts of the UK and Ireland but has spread to Australia and North America, according to National Geographic. It is difficult to distinguish it from edible mushrooms.
“North America has hundreds of species of poisonous fungi, several of which are deadly,” said Sigrid Jakob, president of the Mycological Society of New York. Tell 401 media. “They look similar to popular edible species. False descriptions in the book may mislead people into eating poisonous mushrooms.”
wealth Amazon was reached for comment but did not immediately hear back.company Tell protectorHowever, “we take issues like this seriously and are committed to providing a safe shopping and reading experience. We are looking into this matter.”
The problem of books written by AI is likely to intensify in the coming years as more scammers turn to chatbots to generate content to sell. last month, New York Times reported on A travel guide written by a chatbot.Of the 35 articles submitted to Originality.ai’s artificial intelligence detector, all scored 100, meaning they were almost certainly written by AI
Jonathan Gillham, founder of Originality.ai, warned that such books encourage readers to travel to unsafe places, adding, “It’s dangerous and problematic.”
Of course, it’s not just books.A recent weird MSN article created with “algorithmic techniques” a food bank is listed As Ottawa’s top destination, he tells readers, “Consider going on an empty stomach.”
British field mycologist and foraging guide Leon Frey tells us protector He found that the mushroom field guide written by suspected artificial intelligence had serious flaws, among them: “smell and taste” as identification characteristics. “It seems to encourage tasting as a method of identification,” he said. “It definitely shouldn’t be like this.”
protector Suspicious samples from such books were submitted to Originality.ai, and the company again said that each book scored 100 percent on AI detection.
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