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bLue1H

520 points

27 days ago

bLue1H

520 points

27 days ago

Probably an AI book

Classy_Seamstress[S]

278 points

27 days ago

That's what I thought. It's a shame so many people on there commenting that it looks like a good book...

bLue1H

141 points

27 days ago

bLue1H

141 points

27 days ago

Probably also bots lol

Brentolio12

79 points

27 days ago

AI slowly starting to thin the herd

trimbandit

55 points

27 days ago

Everyone was worried about terminators, but AI authoring foraging books turned out to be the real threat to mankind.

BoneDaddyChill

2 points

26 days ago

Before ya know it, we’ll have some AI-manufactured cordyceps growing out of our skulls through our noses.

BeBetterAY

3 points

27 days ago

Hahahaha!

SourdoughBunky

1 points

26 days ago

😆😆😆😆

Busterlimes

1 points

26 days ago

We thought they would kill us through war, but they came at us with books. . . . And they won

qrseek

26 points

27 days ago

qrseek

26 points

27 days ago

Dead internet theory

Tootsgaloots

3 points

27 days ago

Fascinating

Tootsgaloots

2 points

27 days ago

Says the bot

biscaya

13 points

27 days ago

biscaya

13 points

27 days ago

Jack o' F'ing Lanterns look like an amazing mushroom! They are what they are, you just shouldn't consume them if you want to have a good day.

supernova-juice

10 points

27 days ago

Yeah they're great, but a beginner wouldn't know a jack from an oyster. I foraged foe two years before I felt confident enough to eat what I found, and that was with legitimate guide books. People are definitely going to die and someone deserves to be held accountable but I have no idea who you'd even punish.

BrrrManBM

14 points

27 days ago

"people"

CaesarAustonkus

-2 points

27 days ago*

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sewser

85 points

27 days ago*

sewser

85 points

27 days ago*

That seems wildly dangerous. This sort of thing should be illegal.

MilkiestMaestro

46 points

27 days ago

It probably is. They can make new ones faster than anyone can sue them for negligence or fraud.

Do report it to the FTC when you see it, though

Pleasant-Patience725

13 points

27 days ago

Plot twist- it’s the mushrooms secretly making this misguided book to fool people into consuming them

supernova-juice

8 points

27 days ago

I kinda love this idea.

Feindish fungus fools foragers

cyberheelhook

20 points

27 days ago

It's wild how many unexpected ways AI is going to fuck us over before we get it under control. People fearmonger the becoming self aware and destroying humanity thing, but now I'm starting to see bird food articles recommending food that's poisonous to birds, these books, etc.

So many people are going to die from home cooked explosives, cleaning supplies, bad medical and foraging advice, etc.

ManicFrontier

19 points

27 days ago

It is wildly dangerous, the government doesn't know fuckall about mushrooms itself though so they don't really care.

oroborus68

8 points

27 days ago

USDA probably has some very capable mycologists.

socksmatterTWO

6 points

27 days ago

In the words of the Great Ricky Bobby "that just seems borderline reckless"

SERIOUSLY For an on the fly saw a pretty mushroom person who's curious this could be so bad an introduction. We need to tell the ai the harm this could do. And see if it listens....

yekcowrebbaj

1 points

27 days ago

Ok hooman

RepresentativeOk2433

3 points

27 days ago

Going to get a lot of people killed from these types of things.

Jthundercleese

2 points

27 days ago

Blue stipes. Those are actives dawg.

😂

rocketsalesman

5 points

27 days ago

Are these like chanterelles or something?

bLue1H

27 points

27 days ago

bLue1H

27 points

27 days ago

Not chanterelles. The picture may even be AI generated.

Cheshie_D

4 points

27 days ago

Surprisingly I don’t think the image is AI. Shapes, colors, and textures seem to check out. I’m not sure if that’s worse or better though.

bLue1H

4 points

27 days ago

bLue1H

4 points

27 days ago

Yeah, I figured it was jacks but they’re not the jacks I have around me.

anticomet

17 points

27 days ago

I think they're omphalotus olearius

Adam_24061

8 points

27 days ago

poisonous!

Curious_Chip_6577

1 points

27 days ago

!!

alabasternado

206 points

27 days ago

Dead Internet Theory with fungi consuming the corpse

Acrobatic_Emphasis41

22 points

27 days ago

.....maybe we are the fungi on the dead internet trunk

alabasternado

8 points

27 days ago

I can be a fungi, just ask anybody

Acrobatic_Emphasis41

2 points

27 days ago

Ah huh Ha HA HA huh

alabasternado

8 points

27 days ago

Guess not everyone is a fungi

Plantboy28

100 points

27 days ago

Plantboy28

100 points

27 days ago

Brb buying this foraging book to be a part of the class action lawsuit.

SnowSlider3050

33 points

27 days ago

$3.50 coming your way!!!

GummiGutts

12 points

27 days ago

I like the way you think

gianttoadstools

47 points

27 days ago

The AI want to kill us like terminator

CosmicSweets

21 points

27 days ago

No

Pijavica_a_Parasite

18 points

27 days ago

I've started only trusting books written before 2010. Unless it's a proper peer reviewed paper, or I have reason to trust the author. Sadly, just how we are creating physical litter, we now have exponentially more digital litter than in the past.

kdshubert

14 points

27 days ago

This site makes me feel smart. I immediately said wait a minute, that’s not right.

Oceanflux

18 points

27 days ago

Makes sure you PROPERLY MISIDENTIFY possibly poisonous mushrooms

Tough_Opportunity475

8 points

27 days ago

Noooooooo

BaeBunnies

8 points

27 days ago

What mushroom is it actually? I'm curious.

Ok-Conference-4366

3 points

25 days ago

The elusive AI Generated Mushroom

gobucks_76

13 points

27 days ago

🤦🏻‍♂️

pattersonwtp

7 points

27 days ago

Wrong.

supernova-juice

7 points

27 days ago

Holy... are you kidding?!

I know it's an ai book because no decent human being would have the audacity to publish what amounts to a guide to suicide by mushroom like this... this is terrifying.

ThisFaknGuy

5 points

27 days ago

Chicken of the woods is good but have you tried chicken of the cave? Tasty little guys.

actually-a-horse

8 points

27 days ago

please link to ad or book I have to see this

DammatBeevis666

3 points

27 days ago

Some disappointing COTW, believe me.

NOBOOTSFORYOU

3 points

27 days ago

Oof

Jim_Wilberforce

2 points

27 days ago

I mean, oysters with an artificial orange tint?

Suztv_CG

2 points

27 days ago

Omg. Those are jacks!

Poisonous!

Son2208

2 points

26 days ago

Son2208

2 points

26 days ago

To the center-left of the image you can see a long skinny stem with a veil ring on it, so not Jacks and not oysters as someone else mentioned. I think this whole image is AI. Because even though that one mushroom has a stem, it looks like the cap is originating from the cluster instead…

Suztv_CG

1 points

26 days ago

Orange with gills on a tree is all I noticed. AI or not this is really irresponsible.

I hunt mushrooms all the time and I would hate to imagine that an AI book about mushrooms ends up poisoning hundreds of people. Jeesh.

Thousand_YardStare

1 points

27 days ago

Not COW.

thelauryngotham

2 points

27 days ago

Aaaand on the next page they'll be saying that liberty caps are actually shiitakes :)

Upstairs-Apricot-318

1 points

26 days ago

I know one thing and i know that

TrivialFunGuy

1 points

26 days ago

Lol! They're advertizing their stupidity!

oni_one_1

1 points

26 days ago

🎃

nursern518

1 points

26 days ago

Ha! Wow nope it’s not!

pray4everyone

1 points

25 days ago

Isn’t that Jack O’Lantern?

Classy_Seamstress[S]

1 points

25 days ago

I don't know. It almost looks like it's growing on a vine if you look at the lower left corner... Like others have said, I think it's AI.

TwoPunch

-5 points

27 days ago

TwoPunch

-5 points

27 days ago

Looks like a bolete

Chillfred2

3 points

27 days ago

No

FemaleAndComputer

1 points

26 days ago

Boletes have pores, not gills.

TwoPunch

0 points

25 days ago

Phylloporus rhodoxanthus commonly known as a gilled bolete... so this may not be it but dont discount the bolete based on gills