I disagree completely with the previous comment. I found your video intelligent and well reasoned. I too am a garden designer and the issue of managing expectations is crucial as you said and will only become harder as we move further into the hyperreal. I use Midjourney to generate reference images of specific landscape items and it can be useful for this. For example, a current project includes a circular patio based upon a mandala pattern, at the client's request, and Midjourney can generate endless iterations that are useful as placeholders and visual references. But ultimately the design will be hand drafted by me as Midjourney can only respond to generalised, non-specific written prompts and garden design is by definition location and client specific as you rightly conclude. However, these are early days. AI is an intelligence that has only just emerged and is expanding exponentially...
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Nigel! Yes, AI definitely can make our jobs easier and quicker especially when it comes to creating those reference images you mention and you're right it is only going to get better! But I was thinking about this again yesterday while going through Pinterest images, and I could see that so many more of the garden images are entirely created with Midjourney. And then looking at the comments, most people don't realise that these images are fake. So these expectations created can only lead to disappointment in the end result, which will in the end, be damaging to our art form.
great video
I disagree completely with the previous comment. I found your video intelligent and well reasoned. I too am a garden designer and the issue of managing expectations is crucial as you said and will only become harder as we move further into the hyperreal.
I use Midjourney to generate reference images of specific landscape items and it can be useful for this. For example, a current project includes a circular patio based upon a mandala pattern, at the client's request, and Midjourney can generate endless iterations that are useful as placeholders and visual references. But ultimately the design will be hand drafted by me as Midjourney can only respond to generalised, non-specific written prompts and garden design is by definition location and client specific as you rightly conclude.
However, these are early days. AI is an intelligence that has only just emerged and is expanding exponentially...
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Nigel! Yes, AI definitely can make our jobs easier and quicker especially when it comes to creating those reference images you mention and you're right it is only going to get better!
But I was thinking about this again yesterday while going through Pinterest images, and I could see that so many more of the garden images are entirely created with Midjourney. And then looking at the comments, most people don't realise that these images are fake. So these expectations created can only lead to disappointment in the end result, which will in the end, be damaging to our art form.
You just wasted our time nothing informative
Sorry it wasn't informative enough for you - next time I'll bribe the garden gnomes for better tips!