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AI is ruining houseplant communities online

23 points by rntn

by Kiro

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> “If instead of looking at your plants and making sure that they’re watered correctly or reaching out to an expert, you always just take a picture with your AI app and have it tell you what’s wrong, you are letting AI do the thinking for you and you’re not doing the full connection and the mindfulness of having plants,”
Weakest argument against AI I've ever heard.

by jemmyw

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I've got houseplants. I'm not part of any community, I just like having them. When I water them I weigh them all and put the before and after weights in a spreadsheet. I them give that to an LLM to spot anything interesting in the numbers.

by sublinear

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It's not just houseplants, but everything sold online.
I wouldn't be surprised if some people have literally flown halfway around the world in search of people, places, or things that don't exist.
Fraud is a seriously neglected topic regardless of what tools are used to commit it.

by snickerer

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As a society, we should defend stupid people from being scammed. No irony here. Let's defend the poor, the children, the stupid, these who can't defend themselves.