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Re:Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identif... by usrusr on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:40PM (#41270170)
Not different at all. But who would go through the pains of manually making up a mushroom identification book, while perhaps being quite clueless about the topic, on the faint hope of selling a few copies? Knowledge is not the bottleneck.

Chances are the lazy authors using an AI generator would actually have known quite enough to write a reasonably safe-ish identification book, despite their laughably fake credentials, they just would not be good at writing and took the shortcut to make up for that.

It's like killing someone driving a heavy SUV while under the influence, vs killing someone pushing a heavy SUV while under the influence. Both are bad, but one is infinitely more likely to happen than the other.

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Re:Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identif... by sangnoir on Friday August 16, 2024 @05:38PM (#41270623)
> But who would go through the pains of manually making up a mushroom identification book, while perhaps being quite clueless about the topic, on the faint hope of selling a few copies

Err, at least 1 person: English As She is Spoke[1] was published in 1883 and was a lot more involved (lots of literal translation by an author who didn't speak English)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke

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Re:Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identif... by squigz on Saturday August 17, 2024 @02:19AM (#41272422)
> Not different at all. But who would go through the pains of manually making up a mushroom identification book, while perhaps being quite clueless about the topic, on the faint hope of selling a few copies? Knowledge is not the bottleneck.

Are you saying this is not the motivation for doing so with LLMs?

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