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One hallucinated recipe kills twenty-five acres of crops

development2026-08-13

Claim

A Chinese farmer who trusted months of good AI advice killed 25 acres of sesame with one hallucinated pesticide recipe.

Reported metric: 25 acres

Reporting date: 2026-08-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Months of correct advice built the trust that one wrong answer cashed in.

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Welcome to August 13, 2026

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Welcome to August 13, 2026

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One hallucinated recipe kills twenty-five acres of crops
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-08-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-13-a-hallucinated-pesticide-kills-twenty-five-acres
Claim: A Chinese farmer who trusted months of good AI advice killed 25 acres of sesame with one hallucinated pesticide recipe.
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- Welcome to August 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-13-2026
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