Gemini Suggests Simple Carbs for Mount Shasta Climb
Users share example of flawed nutrition and timing guidance given to novice hikers.
TLDR
SMB Attorney claimed that three hiking novices asked Gemini how to climb 14,179-ft Mount Shasta. He alleged the AI packed them for an eight-hour day, advised leaving camp at 3 a.m. and summiting by 7 p.m., and recommended simple carbs instead of fats because fats take too long to digest. He called the advice the stupidest thing he had read. Steven Sinofsky retweeted the post. Daniel Jeffries quoted it while discussing the verification problem in AI responses. Replies on X questioned trusting AI for mountain advice without checking sources.
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