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AI is not LLM by the way.
I’m sure that there could be a classifier ML model that classifies this more reliably than any human, when trained by the best institutes.
There are also cancer classifiers based on images of skin that are more reliable than any human.
But yeah, I wouldn’t ask an LLM…
You are absolutely right! I’m sorry I misidentified the deadly mushroom before. The horrible taste and tingling sensation you described matches with the description of a poisonous mushroom 💀 instead of the delicious, edible one 🍄. What you just ate was deadly-basilocarpus also known as the death mushroom. Thankfully you can survive if you receive medical assistance in the next 30 seconds, would you like me to find the nearest hospital in BumFuck Nowhere? 🚑
Delectable tea, or deadly poison?
A tea so delicious, it’s heartbreaking!
Sometimes I think about the trial and error that had to occur to determine which mushrooms are edible, which aren’t, and which make you trip.
There’s a whole process for it. First, you smell it. Then rub it on skin. Then taste a tiny piece. Then swallow a tiny piece. Then you eat it.
Ofc, since many mushrooms take hours or days to kill you, this process does fuck-all.
I grew up foraging mushrooms in Michigan, but ever since moving to Alberta I’ve never felt comfortable hunting mushrooms here. I need to go with someone confident who has done it their entire lives. But I did learn recently that a different species of morel actually grows out here. I’m going to try hunting those this year.
All mushrooms are edible.
Once at least.Everything is edible once.
Right, but the 20 billion calories in yellow cake uranium goes straight to my thighs.
At least you won’t have to eat for the rest of your life.
Found Erin Paterson.
AI has previously recommended people eat death caps.
AI app: Great picture! That a “fls Brown cup”; it is delicious and fatal!
there was this german books on cooking with mushrooms, with some parts actually written by a fungi expert and they were finishing up the project and the editorial went on to the glorious idea to save money on the illustrations, and decided to go AI against the will of the author and the expertise of everyone else and go ahead on the print.
well… they had to destroy the whole edition.
who could have known?At this point in my life, I don’t understand why we need to continuously publish new cookbooks. Unless there are 50 million new types of mushrooms, what’s the value?
When AI is involved in creating books, errors can occur. And if the subject is edible mushrooms, the danger can even be life‑threatening. In Hut ab! – Das Pilz‑Kochbuch from Callwey Verlag, author Martin H. Lorenz gathered recipes from renowned chefs such as Eckart Witzigmann, Franck Giovannini, Johann Lafer, and Vincent Klink. The publisher also provided exclusive photographs by Julia Schmidt, Nikolas Hagele, and Caroline Wimmer. The result is a product that would have been of genuine interest to many hobby cooks, especially in autumn. Nevertheless, the cookbook cannot be purchased for now. Besides the photos and recipes, the book also contains illustrations that have caused problems—because, apparently, artificial intelligence (AI) was at least partly involved in their creation. On the Reddit platform, users expressed confusion over the book’s images, noting that several mushroom species were depicted incorrectly. Laypeople could have confused edible mushrooms with similarly looking poisonous ones based on those illustrations. Mushroom expert speaks out The mushroom specialist involved in the production, Dennis Regul, has now publicly commented on the incident: “It concerns the book ‘Hut ab! Das Pilz‑Kochbuch’. I was involved, reviewed the content and gave feedback on errors. I received no fee, only five copies of the book. During the collaboration I discovered AI‑generated pictures and reported that they were completely unsuitable. Unfortunately, I have since found that they were still used,” he wrote on Instagram and Facebook. “I consider the AI‑generated images dangerous. I want to point this out because beginners could be led to collect the wrong mushrooms.” The publisher disputes this. According to a spokesperson, the graphics are not fully AI‑generated; they were created by in‑house illustrators and then visually harmonised with AI. The errors slipped in during that process—errors that the mushroom expert did not manage to spot in time. Although Regul provided critical feedback on some illustrations, those were corrected before publication. At Callwey, an intensive investigation is now underway to determine how the mistakes arose. The publisher has acted quickly: the book has been withdrawn from the market. Whether it will be reissued with corrected illustrations has not yet been decided; according to the spokesperson, this will not happen before 2026. AI becomes a problem for illustrators Earlier, the professional association of illustrators (Illustratoren‑Organisation, IO) had already criticised the use of AI in the industry. “When asked about the biggest future challenge, ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was by far the top answer. Moreover, reports are increasing about missing commissions, changed requests and price collapses,” the statement reads.
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Well, you’ve got to admit getting us to poison ourselves with mushrooms is a bit more subtle than Skynet’s plan.
You haven’t checked the gills or the spores
This is why the spore prints matter.
I will trust AI 100% the minute any of the AI tech bros eat a mystery mushroom based purely on the output of AI content.
I guess you’re forgetting the time Elon Musk smashed his cybertruck window while demonstrating how indestructible it is?
Or the time that guy who was told his submarine design was stupid because fibreglass is strong under tension but still took it down to the bottom of the Atlantic multiple times until it crushed him along with some idiots that must have thought it was fine because it had been down and back before?
Didn’t some politicians drink Flint water to try to “prove” it was safe?
A chemist who drank a gasoline additive to prove it was safe knowing it wasn’t
Not good enough for me knowing there are Thomas Midgley Juniors out there:
On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. […] Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
He was the jackass who invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs and inflicted them on the world.
Yes, but a mystery mushroom would likely have much quicker-acting effects and it would be glorious to watch a bunch of these goobers keep over or absolutely trip balls on live television.
Isn’t the amanita mushroom one of the most deadly, and its unique symptom is that you (seem to) recover after a day or two?
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THEN the second unique symptom hits and you get to open up the abdominal cavity and pour out the remains of the liver.
There are hundreds if not thousands of amanita’s, they do host some of the most deadly species including the death cap and destroying Angels which is what you are referring to, and yes you will get sick well after the fact, feel a little bit better and then crash hard as your liver is liquefied. I think it takes about 2 days for an excruciating death things can be done to save you, including milk thistle extract and other plants which protect the liver, most important would be purging the mushroom if caught in time, and or eating charcoal to soak up the toxins so they’re not absorbed, but hospitals have some other stuff they can do.
I think that particular symptom is a trait of the infamous “destroying angel” specifically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroying_angel
Absolute nightmare fuel. 💀
Not only that mushroom, the death cap as the name suggests has similar effects (same toxin), but is actually the most deadly mushroom. But yeah Amanita are the most deadly/toxic species of mushrooms.
Not all of them, Amanita muscaria Has Perhaps the longest recorded usage of any drug plants or fungi in the history of the northern world. Ask the reindeer they’ll tell you about it.
It is an anticholinergenic. But it has two actions, When Wet Ibotenic acid has an inebriating effect, when dry and cooked it converts to muscimol, which produces hallucinations and an altered state, but is not a hallucinogen but said anticholinergenic, a different class of drug.
A single discredited study accused ibotenic acid of causing brain lesions and the media has repeated it ad nauseam but it’s not accurate, I have done it both wet and dry.
Yeah true, I actually also have thought about trying muscaria, but I’m fearing a little bit the anticholinergics group of drugs… (among others because of potential to increase risk for dementia etc.)
Yes, and if you read the first and second sentences of the wikipedia you’ve linked, you might notice something that I had said in my comment.
Here, I’ll help you out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita
Yo, homie, 👋
I wasn’t trying to “um akshully” you, I was legit just trying to contribute to the conversation for others who were interested.
Thanks for the link and sincerely wishing you the chillest day, though. <3
Humans kinda are the trippy mushrooms they ate causing them to hallucinate.
I never heard of any mushroom like the one pictured in the meme, looking so similar and even growing on the same soil/medium. It’s actually more like this:
Penny bun (yummy):
Bitter bolete (extremely bitter+bad time on the toilet):
St. George’s mushroom (yummy):
deadly fibrecap:
Sometimes they look clearly different but not always
These are more identical than the meme!! lmfaooo
The fiber cap stains red as it can be seen in the picture you posted, the St George doesn’t.
What I meant was that I don’t know any edible mushroom that looks exactly the same as a toxic one and doesn’t have a major characteristic that differentiates it immediately like the smell in the xanthodermus or the staining in the amanita ponderosa.
The bottom one is not toxic, just tastes bad.
I’ve heard some people use them as cocktail bitters.
I’ve occasionally seen some false chanterelles (Hygrophoropsis sp.) do a pretty good chanterelle impression but they’re not toxic, just bland and not well-tolerated.
