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.
  • LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org
    17·
    2 years ago

    This is what real foraging guides look like. If the cover doesn’t look like this you’ve got to go and look up the author and their bonafides before trusting anything in their book. If you’re new to foraging, you should be bringing a few books or guides with you for cross referencing and confirmation of species.

    • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
      8·
      2 years ago

      That is such a great book too. David Arora also does a field guide called Mushrooms Demystified. The cover is a lot more what you would expect for a mushroom field guide, though

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    5·
    2 years ago

    Here, finally, is the true advantage of a physical bookstore. You can flip through a book and tell right away that it is AI generated crap if you have even a small amount of domain knowledge.

  • Devi@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    We all thought AI was going to turn on us and murder us, but no, it will be its incompetence which does us in.

  • Storksforlegs@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    The only way to be sure is to buy it from an outdoor store directly, or go to an actual bookstore (if you still have any nearby)