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."

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Mushrooming Risk: Unreliable A.I. Tools Generate Mushroom Misinformation - Public Citizen

A.I. is being deployed to help beginner foragers identify edible wild mushrooms, but distinguishing edible and toxic mushrooms requires real-world skills that current A.I. systems cannot reliably emulate.

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