Public Citizen: Mushrooming Risk: Unreliable A.I. Tools Generate Mushroom Misinformation
March 18, 2024
"Emerging A.I. technologies are being deployed to help beginner foragers find edible wild mushrooms. Distinguishing edible mushrooms from toxic mushrooms in the wild is a high-risk activity that requires real-world skills that current A.I. systems cannot reliably emulate.
Individuals relying solely on A.I. technology for mushroom identification have been severely sickened and hospitalized after consuming wild mushrooms that A.I. systems misidentified as edible."
https://www.citizen.org/article/mushroom-risk-ai-app-misinformation/