~Pic so more people look at the post smh~
Besides it being a rule in the sub… guys, we literally have so many plant geniuses and wizards in this sub and other plant subs around Reddit! So like, why are we still asking ChatGBT how to care for your pothos, giVING “advice”that you got from ai, or even asking ChatGBT what a plant is when AI is known to be soOOOOOO inaccurate?
Like you’re playing with your plant babies lives by asking AI anYTHING about its care (not even gonna go into the environmental consequences of AI..) when you can as quickly post a question to Reddit and you’ll get quick answers orrr use the internet as it was made for and look up things about your plant (be specific, like you would ai) because it’s so likely someone already has a post answering you or there’s a comment thread explaining the thing you’re confused about.
This isn’t meant to be a lecture but instead a pleading instructional on getting actual plant care
by aqua_tofana2319
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Amen bud. Not to mention that AI processing is depleting natural resources at an alarming rate. I think this sub can appreciate the importance of water.
Because it’s useful, more often correct than not, and a great place to start if you don’t know where to begin. It’s not always the ultimate answer. A lot of people give advice here they got from a relative who don’t really know what they’re talking about or a google search that didn’t produce great results either. Categorically shaming people for using a tool because of your bias against it isn’t going to solve anything.
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well you def dont use AI.. Its GPT lololol
ai rocks
People have very strong feelings against AI. But it’s here and as the saying goes, “you can’t unring a bell.” People are going to use it because it’s easy and accessible.
Thank you for this. You would think that a sub full of plant lovers would collectively hate the one thing destroying the planet the fastest…
A comment on here saying it’s useful & correct, I don’t want to respond to since it’s so downvoted. I am a new plant parent. Literally I bought 9 plants within the last 2-4 months and every single one is thriving and I brought my Aloe back from the dead. That’s never happened in my LIFE I have never had something longer than a month without killing it…. I credit it to joining these sub-reddits & the Planta App.
Everything on the internet tells you to water almost everything on a consistent schedule and a schedule that’s often 5-14 days more often than what I actually learned here!! Also tells you things can survive in low light (that really can’t). I am so happy I found these subreddits for actual people’s feedback, not what chat GPT mined & then averaged out to give me an averaged incorrect watering schedule.
Not just for plant care. This goes for everything
AGREED.
I hate AI.
This reminds me of someone recently making a post trying to identify a bug on the insects subreddit. They said they asked ChatGPT what it was and were looking on confirmation for the answer it gave them…..the answer it had given them wasn’t even a real thing. It just completely made up a bug.
I can ask Chat GPT for the wrong answer myself: I’m asking *here* in hopes I get the right answer from a human who has shared my experience.
Any “ai” generative language model shite should be banned from the sub imo.
It’s not helpful, rarely accurate, and almost always stolen from someone else’s content.
It’s utter brainrot. Spoon feeding (incorrect) info directly into people’s brains and utterly destroying their ability to reason and think.
Read a book. Do some research. Understand why your plant is doing what it does on a biological level. Learn some words. Exercise your brain. Actually learn something. End the “well chatgpt said it needs more hydrocortisone so to pour 50/50 diluted dish soap in to the roots 6 times a day” or whatever shite it manages to cobble together into barely coherent sentences.
My plants are thriving using chat GPT I’m new at plant care and it hasn’t let me down yet, it’s easy for you to say don’t use AI but what am I supposed to do upload 20 different plant species here and get different results from people 🤷🏻♂️
For anyone who answers a question post with “I asked ChatGPT and it answered this:” know that I downvote you every single time, comments like these are less than useless
Unpopular opinion: ai can be kinda good at plant care actually. Not perfect, but I’m better with it than on my own.
But you can’t be using the free version. GPT plus keeps track of every plant in my house, makes suggestions for how I should use my plant chores time, and has been accurate more often than not when I’ve provided it a photo of a plant and asked for an ID or a diagnosis. I still fact check it, and use my intuition. While it does still hallucinate, it’s a fraction of the time compared to google summaries or free versions of ai.
It’s resource intensive. So are a lot of things of the modern era: everything from factory farming to the clothes we buy to Amazon. We all do what we can, but ANYTHING an individual does (with the possible exception of having fewer children) is drops in the bucket of climate change, which is a problem on a scale only corporate and political intervention can make a difference in at this stage. Shaming people for small conveniences is frankly missing the point.
I like ai for plant care. But you need to learn how to use it where it will actually be helpful, and remember that if you’re not paying for something companies are more incentivized to exploit your use than give you a good product.
I will also add that people on here aren’t necessarily always the nicest. So I can understand why someone would ask AI before asking redditers.
Good points.
Personally, I use AI once in a while to get ideas but then verify things as I don’t trust it to be entirely correct at all times. I do make a point of limiting my usage though, energy and all that. Granted making a reddit post consumes energy as well but to my knowledge, quite a bit less.
On the other hand, I have seen a lot of incorrect answers here on Reddit as well so I wouldn’t recommend to anyone to trust reddit 100% either.
So humans are right all the time?
I feel this so much. I get so annoyed when my lady is over reliant on AI. She will describe a problem with a car or a one of her gadgets and I’ll know what the issue is and how to fix it. “Well, I asked ChatGPT and it said…” 😖 ChatGPT didn’t develop hands-on skills and childhood trauma from trying to hold a flashlight correctly for my mechanic dad! Don’t outsource me to a robot!
Do people really not know that you can search within a specific subreddit? Learn how to use the app before you say AI is faster
Saw this in an image search recently 🥴…
https://preview.redd.it/bzbojdi59ihf1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47b007592a040070e249ea1b1bba4488ee2d0d73
I would much rather get tips and advice from real people with real experience.
Reddit is full of human error that you can’t tweak with smarter prompts.
If you want to give people easy access to an AI-overview-free Google search, send them to this page: [https://udm14.com/](https://udm14.com/) (Brought to you by [Tedium](https://tedium.co/).) I’ve been using it for a couple of month with no problems and no ai answers!
I mean, Reddit is not really a reliable resource either. I see bad information and wrong plant identification all the time. Why does this bother you that other people are using AI for plant care? If I ever ask it a question, I verify that the respond is accurate. Also I think asking people not to use it is unrealistic. And arguing that it’s incorrect undermines the fact that a lot of people find it helpful