Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice

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Subscribe to our newsletter In today’s episode of “innocent AI usage goes wrong,” a Stardew Valley player wastes a bunch of time and resources because a Google AI summary lied to their face.”Don’t listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar,” warned user WonderfulScholar6171 on the Stardew subreddit this week. “If you want to avoid a mass amount of rice juice that is.”Scholar shared a screenshot of their Google query “how to make vinegar stardew” and its generated answer: “In Stardew Valley update 1.6+, you can make vinegar by placing 1 unit or Rice (or Unmilled Rice) into a Keg.”Article continues below You may like Google’s AI overview search results are so dumb, it took author Chuck Wendig just weeks to convince it he has a cat named ‘Sir Mewlington Von Pissbreath’ that can speak ‘limited Cantonese’ Stardew Valley fan left their Switch running for ‘over 3 weeks straight’ to sleep for 1,000 years, waking up to immortal villagers, giant mushrooms and debris everywhere An early version of Stardew Valley’s mines featured an ‘underground goblin village’ before ConcernedApe scrapped it The error lies in the parenthetical. You do, in fact, have to mill your rice before throwing it into a keg if you want vinegar. Skip that step (or be misdirected by a machine that only pretends to produce reason) and, well, “now I’m left with 136 Unmilled Rice Juice.”Don’t listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar from r/StardewValleyThe second screenshot is simply tragic: rows upon rows of neatly arranged kegs destined for vinegar production, but instead packing hundreds of gallons of rice juice. What the heck is rice juice? You can drink it for a little stamina