In the Australia’s mushroom murders trial, prosecutors alledge iNaturalist was used by Erin Patterson to locate and collect the toxic death cap mushrooms Amanita phalloides which were cooked into a fatal family lunch. This lunch is at the centre of a high-profile triple murder trial in regional Vict…

Well, maybe ban the mushroom foraging books written by AI!! Mushroom pickers urged to avoid foraging books on Amazon that appear to be written by AI, The Guardian, Sept 2, 2023 I work with a Mycologist and she refuses to ID mushrooms as being safe to eat or not.

@kimbrint Those items require physical strength or skill to use lethally, or you can be saved from 23 pencil stabbings. Takes only one death cap mushroom in a pie or meal to cause severe liver failure and death. The three victims all died in hospital while being treated for death cap mushroom poison…

[image] amberbc: harm minimisation I get that there’s a certain (albeit miniscule) level of risk associated with iNat being a potential source of information about locations of poisonous stuff. I just always want to weight “harm minimisation” against the downsides to implementing more rules. …

The public needs to know of the danger and the location of the danger to prevent accidents. Full stop. This applies to death caps as well. Parents need to know if death caps are present to supervise children or just leave the area. Anything can be used as a murder weapon. Kitchen utensils, vehicles…

The idea that AI is writing mushroom ID books that people might use to decide whether or not to eat them is horrifying. That seems like a major selection pressure though. Those that trust AI with their lives are going to die at much higher rates than the rest of the population.

auto-obscuring things seems like an overreaction. It is not hard to get access to toxic plants & fungi. Even if she had no access to the internet, picking up one guide book and just headed to the woods would probably net her a toxic mushroom. Even if it’s not specifically A. phalloideae, Galerina m…

Thanks for the comment! I totally agree development costs are essential to consider. In a perfect world no changes to the app would be needed as the culture would be the change, eg. other users suggesting an observation of a critically endangered orchid or a hallucinogenic mushroom be obscured to pr…

[image] Vermfly: Those that trust AI with their lives are going to die at much higher rates than the rest of the population. But it’s not just people who trust AI who are in danger. It’s also people who don’t recognize AI, and that is quickly approaching most people.

Well - is the case cotton or polywotsit? The filling polywotsit or feathers (of wild or captive birds)? Then - from which bird??

iNat alledged as source of deadly mushrooms in Australian triple murder trial

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vbjanos May 1, 2025, 5:29pm 29

The road toll (number of people dead) has gone up since these Autonomous electronic gremlins were introduced.

Maybe the death cap needs an airbag.

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iNat alledged as source of deadly mushrooms in Australian triple murder trial

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