Atomic Shrimp noticed that a number of recent mushroom foraging books had errors. These weren’t simple errors, if you ate some of the things they say you could eat, you could destroy your kidneys or even kill yourself. How did this happen? He realized a lot of these books were being generated by AI and it looks very much like the people that put them together didn’t even know how to fact check them.

It’s a great discussion of how AI generated books have become very prevalent and the dangers of people just churning out AI slop without quality control.