> Meta’s “FungiFriend” chatbot showed up in a popular Facebook mushroom foraging group, and soon enough, it advised users to cook a toxic mushroom in butter. Ye

> Meta’s “FungiFriend” chatbot showed up in a popular Facebook mushroom foraging group, and soon enough, it advised users to cook a toxic mushroom in butter. Yes, you read that right. To my understanding, sarcosphaera coronaria is edible after cooking so this specific advice is fine. Used to be eaten raw (and I still see some less-reputable websites giving that advice), but that's no longer recommended. In general though, a mushroom identification bot just seems like such an obvious liability that I'd have to assume the creation of the chatbot (system prompt, name, image) is itself automated by asking an LLM to come up with one based on the group.