@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange
Post #4492472
2026-08-11 07:11 UTC
"According to Taiwanese outfit CTWANT [machine translated], 67-year-old Wu initially didn’t trust the AI app but eventually changed his mind after it proved to be useful. Unfortunately, this mistake turned out to be disastrous, as it directly caused the death of 150 mu, or 24.7 acres, of sesame seedlings."
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-farmer-kills-25-acres-of-crops-after-following-ai-generated-weed-and-pest-control-advice-farmer-trusted-pesticide-recipe-after-months-of-successful-advice
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@tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one 2026-08-11 07:35
@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange omg. ridiculous. i don't trust AI to write an email and people are giving it important tasks?!?!!
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@tymwol@hachyderm.io 2026-08-11 08:18
@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange "You should always verify AI's answers" is such a BS advice. Imagine you had a dictionary that had a disclaimer "this dictionary can be incorrect, consult another dictionary to make sure we got it right", tell me again, why did I need the first dictionary..? Either you can trust AI's answers, or you can't. There is no "sometimes it is wrong", because it literally means that every time you need to double check everything, making it useless.