• e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    there was this german books on cooking with mushrooms, with some parts actually written by a fungi expert and they were finishing up the project and the editorial went on to the glorious idea to save money on the illustrations, and decided to go AI against the will of the author and the expertise of everyone else and go ahead on the print.

    well… they had to destroy the whole edition.
    who could have known?

    https://www.stern.de/kultur/buecher/warum-ein-pilz-kochbuch-nun-vom-markt-genommen-werden-musste-36100284.html

    • e0qdk@reddthat.com
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      2 months ago

      Not good enough for me knowing there are Thomas Midgley Juniors out there:

      On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems. […] Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

      He was the jackass who invented both leaded gasoline and CFCs and inflicted them on the world.