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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] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Identifying mushroom has always been mysterious to me--how did they differentiate many of the mushroom? Especially I heard that there are so many different mushroom that looks identical

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think the most common advice is, "if you live in an area where this edible mushroom and this impossible-to-tell-apart poisonous lookalike both grow, don't pick either of them."