Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?

You see a mushroom in a forest, take a photo, and pass it to an AI chat. My photo, passed to ChatGPT. It follows the answer with further details: The combination is characteristic: vivid orange-yellow color, densely branched antler/coral-like fruiting bodies, smooth somewhat gelatinous branches, and growth from decaying/buried wood in a mossy forest floor. Not poisonous, but not edible either. It ...