Beware of AI Articles [View all]

I was looking up how long to wait between uses of my newly made plaster slip cast mold when I found an article that looked good until it switched to talking about living mold.

https://greenyplace.com/how-long-does-plaster-mold-take-to-dry#google_vignette

Pretty clear this was written with AI and not checked by human.

AI is a useful tool, the problem is that there are tools that use those tools badly and care more about the quick article than the fact that they might be causing others great expense as they follow bad advice.

There have always been books and articles with bad information. Now it is even easier for someone to generate an article that they know nothing about.

Bad data is not new. If you find a health food book from the seventies, my advice would be to pitch it. Veggies are wonderful and generally easy to prepare. It was pretty clear back then that the authors of Vegetarian cookbooks either hated vegetarians, themselves, or taking the time to test a recipe before printing it.