For hunters trying to follow the law, it’s arguably never been harder to find a clear answer to the question, “when does hunting season officially begin?”
The answer to that question is particularly obscure in Alaska, where hunters have to abide by a virtual catalog of conditional rules and regulations that vary wildly based on where in the Last Frontier one wants to hunt. As one woman learned the hard way, not even supposedly cutting-edge AI can make heads or tales of the morass of ordinances.
As the Alaska Beacon reported, Christina Weaver, a resident of the port city of Kodiak, was surprised to learn that she was accidentally poaching birds after following the advice of Google’s AI overviews.
After learning that Alaska’s general waterfowl season doesn’t begin until October 8, Weaver became suspicious that she had broken the law by harvesting three wilson’s snipes in September — adorably pudgy shorebirds with characteristically long bills. Though snipes are common birds with a stable population across North America, late summer coincides with their transition out of breeding season and the beginning of their fall migration.
