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submitted 5 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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...

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago (19 children)

It's not a "fancy word" here, but a technical term. An AI making things up is actually called hallucination.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I am saying that coining it as a term was stupid and intended to make it sound intelligent when it isn't.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 5 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.

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