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AI is ruining houseplant communities online

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24 points rntn | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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Kiro ◴[27 Jun 25 19:50 UTC] No.44399734[source]▶
> “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.

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1. jerlam ◴[28 Jun 25 03:01 UTC] No.44402047[source]▶
It shows the dichotomy between people who want to care for their houseplants as a hobby, and the people who just want to keep their plants alive and green without thinking too much about it.

The former build up a mental model about how plants react to light, water, and fertilizer over time. The latter don't care at all how plants work; they just want the answer, and are the main customers for this type of AI.

I would guess that most communities have a similar problem, and the hobbyists are always outnumbered by the people who pop in, demand an answer, and then leave.