Experienced foragers worry that the new wave of foraging guides produced by artificial intelligence provide misleading—even dangerous—information to novice foragers, and lack details on how to harvest in an ecologically responsible way.
It’s not that easy to steer clear of. I’ve bought a couple of books on other topics from Amazon and realized when they arrived that they weren’t worth the cost of the paper they were printed on. It’s easy enough to notice it’s bullshit, it’s harder to avoid spending money and time on them in the first place.
This right here. Especially in a market completely flooded by this shit, and everything looks the same, it makes it look like it has legitimacy. It makes finding authentic info nearly impossible. Even for a super tech-savvy crowd that might know what markets are being devoured by AI pablum, sorting through the shit is a monumental task. Your average person isn’t going to be able to do that.
People will be fooled because they’re already being fooled, and it’s not their fault. It’s not some far off thing. It’s already happening. And blasting people in the face with a firehose of this shit is the goal: don’t let anyone have an opportunity to be able to tell the good from the bad. Bury everything in the sludge.
Horrific painful death from liver failure when the books lead people to eat the wrong mushrooms
Destruction of ecosystems by people unfamiliar with how to responsibly forage
Flooding of wrong and plagiarized information, drowning out experts and actual real, correct information
There’s literally no positive side of this. At all.
Darwin awards will benefit - if that’s the right term.
I feel for the smart kids or eagar adults that want to learn and get caught up in this.
Darwin awards is a little harsh and I am a huge Darwin awards fan myself.
I see your point, but anyone with an ounce of intelligence will steer well clear of these.
That said, Amazon should be held responsible for deliberately promoting false and dangerous information.
It’s not that easy to steer clear of. I’ve bought a couple of books on other topics from Amazon and realized when they arrived that they weren’t worth the cost of the paper they were printed on. It’s easy enough to notice it’s bullshit, it’s harder to avoid spending money and time on them in the first place.
This right here. Especially in a market completely flooded by this shit, and everything looks the same, it makes it look like it has legitimacy. It makes finding authentic info nearly impossible. Even for a super tech-savvy crowd that might know what markets are being devoured by AI pablum, sorting through the shit is a monumental task. Your average person isn’t going to be able to do that.
People will be fooled because they’re already being fooled, and it’s not their fault. It’s not some far off thing. It’s already happening. And blasting people in the face with a firehose of this shit is the goal: don’t let anyone have an opportunity to be able to tell the good from the bad. Bury everything in the sludge.
How is this related to the Darwin awards, if you’re just getting fooled by a book that you thought was trustworthy?
Trusting Amazon’s AI produced books.
I guess it depends how obvious it is that they’re AI-generated
True. Does it not say or does it even give a fictitious author? Amazon should be held accountable if that’s the case.
Amazon should be held accountable for a lot of things, let’s face it…