Comment on The AI grift that can literally poison you

CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While agreed, how do you find the reliable surfaces amid the sea of garbage, especially when you’re first starting out?

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  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    before:2023

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Buy a book published more that a couple of years ago. Or ask the people living in the area (the older the better, normally ). Or ask the people living in the area where you can have the mushrooms checked, they usually know where to go.

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    search for a local mycological society or association?

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    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Again it’s not that the good resources don’t exist, it’s that AI floods the search with garbage. Also, AI isn’t just writing garbage books, they’re also making AI generated websites that are SEO optimized beyond human capability pushing the good resources out of the top search results.

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      • Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which is why they suggested finding an organization/association, not an arbitrary website.

        Funnily enough, chatgpt should be able to recommend some great associations. GPT-3 doesn’t even have up-to-date databases so it doesn’t even know about any new AI things that have popped up.

        So find a real group of people, ask them things.

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the absence of a local club, I’m not sure. I mean, have a look at the cover on this one—I understand that’s considered one of the more reliable and informative guides for the locations it covers, which is why it’s still in print after 30+ years, but the only reason that photo doesn’t look AI generated is that you can’t imagine how they would have come up with the prompt . . .

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  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mycology forums and clubs can be good ways to find reliable books, apps, etc for identification

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    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How does one find a mycology forum or club without falling prey to SEO optimized AI generated results? AI isn’t just generating books, they can write fake web pages for non-existent clubs and fake entire forums and optimize the hell out of the SEO to maximize positioning on Google’s search results.

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      • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure, but youre talking about Dead Internet Theory at that point, which applies to all topics not just mycology

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      • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you try to contact the club, but can’t actually meet anyone, it’s fake or might as well be.

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      • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ask the people living in the area. They know the mushrooms and eventually they know where to go to have them checked.

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