General Discussion

You initially wrote:

Which made it sound as if you simply asked the AI to give you several images of replacement landscaping. You didn't explain in that first message that you'd given an image generator multiple detailed prompts.

Though even with detailed prompts, you probably didn't get the exact images you were hoping for, at least not immediately.

And most people can visualize without needing AI to spit out an image for them. I hope AI users won't lose that ability.

Re the plants you had AI choose for you:



The main reason is that if you're aware that genAI was trained unethically and illegally, then deciding to use it anyway, if you aren't forced to by school or a job, is an unethical decision that shows a lack of concern for all the people whose work was stolen to train the AI. And that theft is ongoing, every hour of every day.

And another important reason is that you wouldn't have needed days to check out which plants of particular types were best for that location. Regular searches will find that information quickly. And you'll also pick up other info while searching, rather than letting the AI filter your options and what you learn.

And since genAI is very good at hallucinations, I hope you checked all of its results instead of assuming it was correct. Unfortunately a lot of AI users don't bother, and studies have indicated that the more someone uses AI, the less likely they are to check, even if they know genAI hallucinates.

Maybe you saved a few minutes, after you included time spent time checking to make sure the AI hadn't hallucinated. Maybe you saved an hour or two. I wouldn't assume you saved much more time. And you might've found something you preferred to what the AI chose for you, if you'd done the research without AI.

Plus you'd have been doing more thinking, and learning.

You wrote:



There's good and bad technology. With genAI, how it was trained + the error rate + the dumbing down of users (confirmed by studies including Microsoft's) + all the myriad harms make it bad tech.

I have nothing against tech in general.