Sample of books scored 100% on AI detection test as experts warn they contain dangerous advice

Amateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots.

Amazon has become a marketplace for AI-produced tomes that are being passed off as having been written by humans, with travel books among the popular categories for fake work.

Now a number of books have appeared on the online retailer’s site offering guides to wild mushroom foraging that also seem to be written by chatbots. The titles include “Wild Mushroom Cookbook: form [sic] forest to gourmet plate, a complete guide to wild mushroom cookery” and “The Supreme Mushrooms Books Field Guide of the South-West”.

    • Breezy@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      I thought that was duncen trussell on the cover. I figured a book about mushrooms seems like something he’d make.

    • dx1@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      I have one of his (Mushrooms of North America?) that’s about an inch and a half thick and gives a comprehensive, more or less academic introduction to the field. Read it 10 or so years back and I’m not dead yet, so.

      • Tatters@feddit.uk
        23·
        10 months ago

        Written by an AI ten years ago? I didn’t think they were that advanced back then.

    • Urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      10 months ago

      Incredible. I wish I lived in the western US so I had a reason to buy this book. I kind of just want it on a poster.