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.
It’s so misleading how these AI products are marketed as all knowing super smart knowledge sources. While in reality, even if they don’t hallucinate bullshit, it’s trained on the internet mostly. So at best these things have the knowledge of an average Reddit poster. What does an average Reddit shit poster know about farming? Jack shit…
Sounds like AI watched the Fight Club scene with the billboard “Did you know you can use old motor oil to fertilize your lawn?”
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.
