Experts are worried that books produced by ChatGPT for sale on Amazon, which target beginner foragers, could end up killing someone.
The 7 Safest Edible Mushrooms to Forage and Eat
A list of the most delicious and safest edible mushrooms for beginner foragers, including chanterelles, oyster, and hen of the woods.
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AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited bestseller list was full of books with titles like “Apricot bar code architecture” and “Jessica’s Attention” earlier this week.
Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
We've long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn't sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn't been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence.
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Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage
Google said it will continue to evaluate its approach “as the world of book publishing evolves.”
Seven Theses from Feeding the Machine
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Against the brainrot
Reading the Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt (highly recommended), I was particularly impressed by the rules of life of Zeng Guofan, the conqueror of Taipings.
Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For - Astral's Blog
‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.
Feed Logic and the Failure to Thrive
Two disquieting works of fiction I encountered this spring feature the same menacing figure: a young girl that refuses to eat. In Ben Lerner’s novel Transcription (2026), doctors inform a couple that their waifish, picky-eating daughter is, in fact, “failing to thrive,” suffering from ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed (Published 2014)
Is resistance to Amazon futile in the book publishing world? Its battle with Hachette has many on edge.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence | Psyche Ideas
The evidence for fungal intelligence is in: they can operate as individuals, make decisions, learn, and have short-term memory
