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AI is ruining houseplant communities online
AI-generated images and chatbot misinformation plague plant collectors.
“It’s always important for us to be able to ground our advice in science,” Ahl says, adding that garden centers have already fallen behind the curve of connecting with clients because of plant influencers on social media who are able to go viral quickly but rarely cite scientific studies. “Most people are looking to socially connect based on real lived experiences, in a community with others like you, otherwise it would be easier to simply Google a question for answers,” says Redditor known as Caring_Cactus, who moderates four plant-related subreddits, in a written interview. “There’s a lot of different reasons that people garden, including supporting wildlife and pollinators with native plants or growing their own food, and these AI images and scams are not really interested in connecting you with a broader goal,” Ahl says.
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