A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, Anhui Province, China, apparently lost about 25 acres of sesame crops after following pest control advice from an AI chatbot. The mixture he applied seemed to have killed both the weeds and his sesame seedlings within a day.
The farmer had reportedly been using the AI chatbot for about a year to plan farming schedules and get fertilizer recommendations, according to Taiwanese outlet CTWant, cited by Brobible. In July, he turned to the chatbot for advice on managing pests in his sesame crop.
