A ‘potentially deadly’ mushroom-identifying app highlights the dangers of bad AI

There’s a saying in the mushroom-picking community that all mushrooms are edible but some mushrooms are only edible once.That’s why, when news spread on Twitter of an app that used “revolutionary AI” to identify mushrooms with a single picture, mycologists and fungi-foragers were worried. They called it “potentially deadly,” and said that if people used it to try and identify edible mushrooms, they could end up very sick, or even dead.Part of the problem, expl