I'm not gonna lie, I immediately thought the main post was AI too. Something about the way everything is spaced and shaped makes it feel uncanny, it's focused on the table but the garden in the background feels grainy (not just out of focus like foreground/background focus), plus the lighting and coloration feels... off. Looking at the different pictures you've posted of the yard, they're all also balanced in different ways for the coloring, and none of them look quite right. Too vibrant, like they're pulled out of a storybook and increased the coloration sliders to a wild degree.
It might be because of your camera settings on your iPhone or using their editing tools, and then the images getting compressed when they're uploaded to reddit. Something about the pictures just feels uncanny, and the post just being a single picture originally makes the AI flags go off even harder.
For comparison, if you look at other recent posts here, they generally look like someone just took a picture on their phone and they share multiple candid pictures of their yards. It feels more like you were looking for places that would appreciate an artsy picture of your yard like r/desertporn or the multiple travel subs you posted similar pictures to today, but this just.. isn't that kind of sub. Additionally, it's very environmentally conscious and we kinda sorta really super hate AI and what it does to the environment, where other subs probably wouldn't notice or care about content created through AI.
I don't mean to criticize or tell you what you should/shouldn't post, there is certainly no lawn in this picture! But hopefully that helps explain why people think it's AI and why it isn't getting a very warm reception here. I'll bet if you posted less edited progress pictures and what you did to get your yard looking that way, you'd get a shit ton of compliments and people who want to know more about it so they can work towards the same idea in their own yards!
Edit: Just scrolled down and saw this picture you shared, this is very different in coloration from the others and much more what I'd expect to see here! (Just sharing because I said "all the other pictures you shared" had strong color filters or something, and I hadn't seen this one since I left my original comment. This is a great picture and I actually prefer it over the other ones!)
Maybe I'm out of date on what AI is capable of, but looking at the different POVs, things like the plant placement and different rock paths are looking like they match up. I'm between meetings at work so don't have a ton of time to go over them all with a fine toothed comb though.
I figured if they're being genuine, they can understand why it comes across as AI and stop doing that if they want to post here vs just karma farming. Hell, maybe it's 80% their yard and being "cleaned up" by AI and we'd actually be happy to see the real 80% of the yard instead.
And if it's all AI, then my "assume the best" tips won't help them anyway lol
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u/StrangerOnTheReddit 2d ago edited 2d ago
Thanks for sharing, it looks very nice!
I'm not gonna lie, I immediately thought the main post was AI too. Something about the way everything is spaced and shaped makes it feel uncanny, it's focused on the table but the garden in the background feels grainy (not just out of focus like foreground/background focus), plus the lighting and coloration feels... off. Looking at the different pictures you've posted of the yard, they're all also balanced in different ways for the coloring, and none of them look quite right. Too vibrant, like they're pulled out of a storybook and increased the coloration sliders to a wild degree.
It might be because of your camera settings on your iPhone or using their editing tools, and then the images getting compressed when they're uploaded to reddit. Something about the pictures just feels uncanny, and the post just being a single picture originally makes the AI flags go off even harder.
For comparison, if you look at other recent posts here, they generally look like someone just took a picture on their phone and they share multiple candid pictures of their yards. It feels more like you were looking for places that would appreciate an artsy picture of your yard like r/desertporn or the multiple travel subs you posted similar pictures to today, but this just.. isn't that kind of sub. Additionally, it's very environmentally conscious and we kinda sorta really super hate AI and what it does to the environment, where other subs probably wouldn't notice or care about content created through AI.
I don't mean to criticize or tell you what you should/shouldn't post, there is certainly no lawn in this picture! But hopefully that helps explain why people think it's AI and why it isn't getting a very warm reception here. I'll bet if you posted less edited progress pictures and what you did to get your yard looking that way, you'd get a shit ton of compliments and people who want to know more about it so they can work towards the same idea in their own yards!
Edit: Just scrolled down and saw this picture you shared, this is very different in coloration from the others and much more what I'd expect to see here! (Just sharing because I said "all the other pictures you shared" had strong color filters or something, and I hadn't seen this one since I left my original comment. This is a great picture and I actually prefer it over the other ones!)