Horrific painful death from liver failure when the books lead people to eat the wrong mushrooms

Destruction of ecosystems by people unfamiliar with how to responsibly forage

Flooding of wrong and plagiarized information, drowning out experts and actual real, correct information

There's literally no positive side of this. At all.

AI isn't writing the books. Humans are directing AI to write the books to scam people.

This is no different from a person who has no fucking clue about foraging writing their own foraging book. Amazon has had a scam writing problem with their book catalogue for years now. AI is just making that process easier.

(Look, I know the video is long, but it's really good content.)

This is what real foraging guides look like. If the cover doesn't look like this you've got to go and look up the author and their bonafides before trusting anything in their book. If you're new to foraging, you should be bringing a few books or guides with you for cross referencing and confirmation of species.

How Amazon can think that publishing 3 books a day is acceptable???

It's literally impossible to produce 3 books a day, unless it's something menial like "how to pee, in three simple steps"

We all thought AI was going to turn on us and murder us, but no, it will be its incompetence which does us in.

"The Forager's Harvest" is one of the best guidebooks out there for foraging. Those titles are insidiously close, and can easily trick people who aren't paying enough attention.

Here, finally, is the true advantage of a physical bookstore. You can flip through a book and tell right away that it is AI generated crap if you have even a small amount of domain knowledge.

The only way to be sure is to buy it from an outdoor store directly, or go to an actual bookstore (if you still have any nearby)