"Google Gemini tried to kill me" - eviltoast

I followed these steps, but just so happened to check on my mason jar 3-4 days in and saw tiny carbonation bubbles rapidly rising throughout.

I thought that may just be part of the process but double checked with a Google search on day 7 (when there were no bubbles in the container at all).

Turns out I had just grew a botulism culture and garlic in olive oil specifically is a fairly common way to grow this bio-toxins.

Had I not checked on it 3-4 days in I’d have been none the wiser and would have Darwinned my entire family.

Prompt with care and never trust AI dear people…

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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    6 months ago

    oh definitely, it’s fucking terrible question-begging. I’d like to know when it traces back to, and how good faith it was or wasn’t

    • acausal_masochist@awful.systems
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      6 months ago

      It originally comes from false positives in computer vision afaik, where it makes some sense as the model is “seeing” things that aren’t in the image.