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● 18/03/2024

Consumer advocates Public Citizen release “Mushrooming Risk,” a report on the danger of AI tools to foragers. Spurned by recent hospitalizations, researcher Rick Claypool outlines the folly of using apps to identify species and gauge edibility. “Mushroomers must take the time to develop their skills at their own pace,” he writes, championing local knowledge over app reliance. Experimenting with DALL-E compounded his fear; when he prompted it to label basic mushroom anatomy, it hallucinated utter nonsense (image).

Public Citizen
● 22/03/2021
“Like mushrooms themselves, the font changes unpredictably, illustrating how fungi can be both an aesthetic and a methodology for rethinking how images and objects can form and grow.”
– Francesca Gavin, writer and curator, on the generative typeface Hypha that is based on mycelial growth. Developed by design studios Pentagram and Counterpoint for the Gavin-curated “Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi” at London’s Somerset House, Hypha is now available as an online tool.
Frieze
● 07/02/2021
“I was front row to a fungal safari. There were invisible exchanges—infestations—happening without my knowledge or consent.”
– Zoë Schlanger, journalist and science writer, on the wonders of at-home mycology (i.e. growing oyster mushrooms in her kitchen) and why “watching something busily transform trash into fleshy, sculptural fruit is a comfort”
New York Times
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