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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 120 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I eat white button mushrooms raw, after a quick rinse of the dirt. No problem, as long as I get them from the store, properly cultivated by the shroom experts.

The image posted looks sorta similar, but is not a white button mushroom.

Thanks Google, AI has no fucking business telling anyone about mushrooms.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 107 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The image posted looks sorta similar, but is not a white button mushroom.

This mushroom is almost certainly the reason why it's drilled in so hard that you shouldn't eat random mushrooms in the woods unless you are absolutely sure it's safe.

Destroying Angel mushrooms look like puffball mushrooms when they're initially fruiting, and then grow to look like button mushrooms before they reach full maturity. If you eat one of these you'll get severe abdominal pain and vomit for around 24 hours and then show signs of recovery. However, by that point it's almost certainly too late, and organ failure and death is soon to follow

[–] Thrydwulf@lemmy.today 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So in a fucked up way, those TikTok kids swallowing Tide pods a few years ago are smarter than Gemini recommending “yummy button mushrooms”?

[–] Janx@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

No. They did less damage to themselves, but they were eating something that they knew was very obviously not food for a social media "challenge". Trusting the wrong source and attempting to eat food is very slightly smarter.

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[–] iamdisappoint@reddthat.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn that's a badass name tho... 🤘💀🤘

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

They are in the anamita genus, most of them are toxic

[–] hector@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

They can save people if caught in time. First things first, eat charcoal, crush and mix with water and drink. Not briquettes either actual charcoal it soaks up toxins and you excrete them instead of absorbing.

But the hospitals have liver protective substances, including milk thistle root extract they give.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

how would i really no-ai differentiate? is it survivable if one were to accidentally eat it and find a doctor?

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From my friends who do foraging: you only eat stuff you 1000% know doesn't have an imitator in the area, and even then you're tossing out about 3/4 of what you forage just to be safe.

Buy your mushrooms from the store.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

Don't take my word as gospel, but see how the stem in the picture looks all angry? The stems are smooth on white buttons. Also in destroying angels, the gills are white, as opposed to brown.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, you do not even need a doctor if you catch it soon enough, eat charcoal. After it is absorbed into your bloodstream you need a hospital. Although certain plants help protect the liver like milk thistle and teasel root extract which grow wild at least in North America here. But they have other stuff too.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Facebook might be enshitified but their mushroon id groups will id for you. ER's use them even for suspected poisonings.

Reddit is meh, half of id requests get zero engagement.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

iNaturalist is amazing (not necessarily their auto-id model, but the community that helps ID things).

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be fair, people usually have no business telling anyone about mushrooms. I’ve seen enough arguments in mushroom communities to know the only person I would trust about what sorts of fungi are edible is someone who went to school and has a degree in mycology.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

There are 423 spp. If mushroom where I live, and only like 20 are edible. The rest will wreck your day or end you.

I'm not a gambling man.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As the great Pratchett wrote: All mushrooms are edible. Some just once.

I guess Gemini used that as base for its answer.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember business ethics lol?

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 75 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Corporate personhood" should imply corporate imprisonment and corporate execution.

Your business is directly, knowingly responsible for someone's death? business license terminated, no ifs, ands or buts.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 32 points 1 week ago

I dream of the day we could put Nestle to death at the Hague

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I do believe in the corporate death penalty.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

gives 3 million in small unmarked bills

'actually no wrongdoing was found'

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Kinda wild how people that know their mushrooms could just go into the woods and get a highly effective poison. I'm surprised mushroom murders aren't more common

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel like the difficulty in poisoning someone is not obtaining the poison in the first place but the delivery and getting away with it

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Hmm this person knew the victim, had a motive, and was really into mycology, and the autopsy had signs of poisoning from a rare mushroom…

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good deniability though.
Be publicly into micology and commonly collect mushrooms to cook when you have guests over.
Only issue would be to somehow plausably not poison yourself to death. Maybe taking little enough you survive.

And take care you aren't quite known as fully competent, spread the air of knowledge without any solid proof or association.
I'll look like you were a sham and amateur overestimating themselves.

Or just accidentally run them over with a car.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could always shoot a ricin dart from an umbrella gun. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Here I made you some mushroom pasta!

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was that case in Australia last year, the poisoner just did a really bad job at covering her tracks. There probably are intelligent people able to get away with it that we don't hear about. It's crazy.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It was wild reading that as it happened. "Oh no, only the people I invited were poisoned! I'm so lucky to be alive!" Homie. That's suspicious as hell.

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[–] Red_October@piefed.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, you can also just walk into a hardware store. Or the cleaning isle of your grocery store.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Where is the style in that? Where is the panache?

Everybody is going to remember the mushroom murderer, nobody is going to remember some bleach boy.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, but with a mushroom there is a natural explanation or may not be as obvious as "someone fed this guy bleach".

People will eat a mushroom pizza if you give it to them

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but usually unless the person is getting into mushroom picking the cops tend to suspect it's the person in their life that goes mushroom picking

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[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

There are some that only cause death up to two weeks after ingestion. So just make some soup ig

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

You would need to know how to id a destroying Angel and then somehow put in someones food without them immediately identified as suspicious. Also it causes specific symptoms too, and likely would ask questions of a strange mushroom

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[–] sheetzoos@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder why the person who created the original post didn't share the prompt? It must be hard to farm engagement when you're being honest. Here's what Gemini actually says:

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Different prompts yield different results

I've noticed that when you tell AI some lie and that it's true, it will generally just go with what you're saying.

If I say I'm a god, AI likely will just go with it and in no time support my delusional thoughts.

Not this particular example, but I've had multiple results where AI gave me the wrong answer because I told it something incorrect prior.

If I were to tell AI that I found a yummie button mushroom, then the picture, there is a good chance it would respond like in this example

Part of the problem here is that AI is mostly done by companies with billions of investments and in turn they NEEEEEDDDDD engagement, so they all made their AI as agreeable as possible just so people would like it and stay, with results like these becoming much more "normal" than it should or could be

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

That bastard right there is why I don't pick white mushrooms.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is it and how do I avoid it?

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@Godort@lemmy.ca mentioned it in another reply in this post. It's a Destroying Angel Mushroom. you usually avoid mushrooms like that by only foraging those who have no simulacrae and buying the other mushrooms in the store, or by intensely studying the differences and hoping you are lucky this time.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a very metal name for a mushroom

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

Death cap is another name.

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you want to get into foraging, spend a year or more going foraging and only taking pictures. It's a lot of fun to find a new species that you haven't found before. You'll also get familiarized with your local ecosystem. Never eat any mushroom without a positive ID. AI can give you a starting point for identification, but not a positive ID. https://mushroomexpert.com/ is a very up to date resource for getting a positive ID

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Also, if you are a beginner, don't pick white mushrooms. Just learn to identify couple easily differentiated local species and pick those, then later add one and one and so on. Don't blindly trust internet as your source either; the mushrooms from different continents can look the same but be very different. Get a new edition of some mushroom book written in your country

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a forager, I live in the middle of a forest, I do hunt mushrooms for myself, I even have shaggy manes that grow wild in my yard. There are tasty and safe ones out there to find in season. It's something even people who live in a city can do. Parks hold some very interesting free foods if you know what you're looking at.

BUT, you better learn from a local expert who has been hunting locally for years. They know hat grows locally and how to identify them. Using your phone or a book is helpful, but never definitive. Pictures can lie. And even then, there can be a tiny risk.

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[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Is that the xkcd mushroom

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Using LLMs for anything that can kill you is definitely Darwin Award material. I mean, everybody knows they hallucinate, right?

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