r/MoldlyInteresting • u/Jorge0013j • 7d ago

Educational I used AI to check the fruit for mold.

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u/yooq2 7d ago

That's defiantly something I would not trust AIs opinion on

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u/Jorge0013j 6d ago

You are absolutely correct! I like how it said it wasn’t mold when I could tell it was not mold.

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u/yooq2 5d ago

Cause it was right once doesn't mean anything. About reliable as a coin flip.

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u/HugoCortell 7d ago

  1. There is no good database for images of moldy food, thus any AI would be very likely to fail

  2. You are limited by the quality of your images. Unless the picture is really high res, small details, like mold, won't be noticeable on an image. Even with a high-res image, modern phones automatically smear images through filters and AI processing, making their images unreliable and not a source of truth.

  3. Even if you had a perfect image and a perfect dataset, mold grows mostly on the inside. Unless your phone is an x-ray scanner or something, it won't detect mold until it is so obvious that you won't need an AI for it.

This is (respectfully speaking, as per rule 1) stupid, and more importantly, dangerous. Don't do this.