AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip
The Register 1 month ago 49
Piotr Migdał tested leading AI models for identifying mushrooms and found they give unreliable results for safe versus deadly species. The best model, Gemini-3.8-flash, was correct on its first guess only 65% of the time. As a result, the dataset and findings push people to not eat mushrooms based on AI outputs and instead rely on manual expertise or safer species until identification accuracy is proven.