ChatGPT, along with other services like Google Gemini, has become incredibly popular recently \u2013 but as an emerging and evolving technology, its teething issues could have large consequences<\/p>\n
DISCOVER OUR SUPERCAR AUCTION SITE<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 View live auctions on SBX Cars<\/p>\n What advice did ChatGPT give Kristi\u2019s friend?<\/p>\n The advice given was related to a plant that Kristi\u2019s friend had in her backyard.<\/p>\n She had sent the chatbot a photo of the plant, asking: \u201cWhat is this?\u201d<\/p>\n ChatGPT<\/a> responded, telling her that it was carrot foliage.<\/p>\n Screenshots provided by Kristi even show the chatbot<\/a> explaining why it thought it was correct.<\/p>\n This included the plant\u2019s \u2018finely divided and feathery leaves.\u2019<\/p>\n Chat GPT described these as a classic for carrot tops.<\/p>\n It then gave her friend lookalikes of the plant, one of which was poison hemlock.<\/p>\n Kristi\u2019s friend asked ChatGPT<\/a> if it was poison hemlock, but she was met with reassurance that it was just carrot foliage.<\/p>\n Click the star icon next to\u00a0supercarblondie.com\u00a0in\u00a0Google Search<\/a>\u00a0to stay ahead of the curve on the latest and greatest supercars, hypercars, and ground-breaking technology<\/p>\n The AI Chatbot had it incredibly wrong<\/p>\n Per the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, poison hemlock is a plant that can kill you if you ingest it, and causes a painful rash for some when touched.<\/p>\n The AI said it wasn\u2019t hemlock as the photo \u2018did not show hollow stems with purple blotching\u2019.<\/p>\n Incredibly, the photo actually did show exactly that.<\/p>\n Kristi then put the photo through Google\u2019s own AI<\/a>, Google Lens, to see what it thought of the plant.<\/p>\n Google came back by saying it was indeed poison hemlock.<\/p>\n Her friend then used a different phone to put the image through ChatGPT, which then said it was poisonous!<\/p>\n Kristi was grateful that her friend had asked her for advice, rather than blindly following the AI service.<\/p>\n Had she not done so, then the results could have been fateful.<\/p>\n In an Instagram video, Kristi said: \u201cThis is a warning to you that ChatGPT and other large language models and any other AI, they are not your friend, they are not to be trusted.\u201d<\/p>\n On this occasion, ChatGPT certainly did get things very wrong<\/a> \u2013 users beware.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDISCOVER SBX CARS: \t\t\t\t![\"Woman](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/resize-33.webp.webp\")
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