AIThe Registerabout 5 hours ago
AI mushroom ID models fail safety tests
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AI models misidentify poisonous mushrooms at dangerous rates. Testing 1,040 photos across 16 models, the best performer, Gemini-3.8-flash, identified species correctly only 65 percent of the time. Qwen3.8-27b called poisonous mushrooms edible 36 percent of the time. Engineer Piotr Migdał warns against trusting AI for foraging.
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