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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 7 days ago

Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops

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Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 7 days ago
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The 67-year-old farmer was recommended by the AI to use "high-efficiency flupyrimethalin" and "flusulfasulfaether" (flufenacet) to kill weeds and mix it with "thiamethoxazine" and "methyl salt." As...
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    Have you seen the average age of an American farmer?

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      Isn’t the average American farmer a megacorporation or investment fund these days?

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        https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2024/02-13-2024.php as of 2022 average age was 58.1 years old. Depends somewhat on the industry often mega corps know they can’t farm and are just Monopsonys driving more and more farmers out of business as they lower prices paid to farmers and increase prices the public pays to them. Clearly not short sighted at all what could go wrong…

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