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Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes (wapo.st)

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In particular, know how to identify the common and deadly species (eg: much of the genus Amanita) yourself, and get multiple trustworthy field guides for your part of the world.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This needs to be shouted from the rooftops, I have seen and heard many new amateur mycologists using these tools for identity, they are wrong the majority of the time. Proper identification takes multiple tests and a lot of hands on experience