A run of foraging guides on Amazon in the summer of 2023 that had been written by AI, credited to authors who did not exist, and that advised readers to identify mushrooms by taste. The New York Mycological Society warned that the books could kill people; Amazon removed several. The record keeps the case as the point where AI-generated text stopped being a quality problem and became a safety one.
Seen through a mycology society's Twitter thread and a report that ran the text through detectors, which returned near-certain results and, for once, were probably right.
Text that has the shape of expertise about the one hobby where the shape is not enough, since a wrong guess about a mushroom is not a rhetorical error.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
