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”.

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    10 months ago

    To back up your point but also clarify, the woman with the McDonald’s coffee initially offered to settled for 20k, but McDonald’s wouldn’t offer more than $800. The jury awarded her $3mil. It was later reduced but then settled confidentially. McDonald’s did (as you point out) produce a major smear campaign against her and completely downplayed her injuries. iirc, her the injuries included third degree burns, fusion of labia to her thigh, and multiple skin grafts. The more you learn about it, the worse it gets. We were all brainwashed into thinking it was poster child for frivolous lawsuits. https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts

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      Yeah, thanks for that. Especially having me thinking about labia being fused to the thigh first thing in the morning. Hello, sunday!