I can’t believe he even told anyone he was stupid enough to have an AI tell him a chemical name, go buy a shit ton of it, and poison 25 acres of crops with it without bothering to check with anyone or do anything to be certain the chemical was safe for his crop.
That does make me curious about how this story went from a single farmer on small 25 acre farm in China to an international news story.
If you’re an online news source and you write a story combining AI and doing something stupid you get a billion clicks.
So I may have eaten that halfwit’s production…
Maybe this is where the diarrhea lettuce is coming from
No, but you might be eating another halfwit’s chemical cocktail that didn’t kill the crops
Back at the end of the last century when search engines first were gaining popularity, your lycoses and search cactuses and ask Jeeves and dogpile and what not, I’m pretty sure there were stories of people taking what they found as true without considering sources or getting multiple reliable sources too.
I think people were turning off overpasses when Apple Navigation came out too. Despite them obviously driving on an overpass.
Jeremy Clarkson will have to rewrite the new season of Clarkson’s Farm…
Clarkson farm had AI mapped field as to where to plant seeds based on ai analysing data on the ground quality, he praised it and while I’m no expert at farming, i do come from a farm and I remember this being a big waste everyone just accepts.
bet he was a MAGA farmer.
edit: nope, he was Thai. close enough.
