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.
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.
I read the article and its linked sources in a few cases. How else would I have been able to directly address them?
Notice this paragraph which links to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36794335/
The extract for which talks about the following apps:
Picture Mushroom (Next Vision Limited©), Mushroom Identificator (Pierre Semedard©), and iNaturalist (iNaturalist, California Academy of Sciences©)
None of which use LLMs and predate the issue that the article is talking about. I checked, before my comment, all of their pages on the iOS App store, at least. They’re all 4+ years old and none use LLMs.
Amusingly enough, the Public Citizen article linked earlier in OP’s article calls out iNaturalist as something they’ve been working with to positively improve the experience of identifying mushrooms:
https://www.citizen.org/article/mushroom-risk-ai-app-misinformation/
But ultimately there were no apps ACTUALLY TESTED that use OpenAI or LLMs for their identification.
Where does the article say the problem started with AI? It doesn’t even mention LLMs, just the explosion in grifter apps since it became easier to produce a grifter app.
If you read the article, you did not read it properly.
And they didn’t test any of them, and linked to an actual test which ALSO didn’t test any of them as if it supported the claim that these apps are, as you (but not the article) say, are grifter apps.