MARILYN CORNWELL: Marilyn's Photos - May 27 2025 - AI Self-Diagnosis vs dump a friend

The CBC interviewed a doctor who cautioned about using AI for "self-diagnosis." The study had given medical exam multiple choice questions to AI, and it failed some simple ones. There are many articles on the comparison of AI chatbot and human medical diagnosis. It seems like a game of chess - sometimes AI wins, sometimes the doctors. I wonder which side is keeping score. Are we keeping score?

At the other end of things AI being used for writing is even more popular. It shouldn't be as hard. However, take the popular example that people are writing about. An AI chatbot writing the email to dump a friend. Like medical diagnosis, the success levels are similar. Some successes and other failures with there being too many signs of a bot at work.

You can put text into an AI detector and get a probability rating that it is AI-created. Some of these "expose" articles have done this to find out they weren't from the 'author."

I have started to check garden images on Fine Art America. Last week, I was surprised when I put some images through HIVE AI detection. Gardens with little angels carrying daisy bouquets seem sufficiently saccharine as to be AI generated. And there are lots of AI-generated images of this sort. What did I find? 0% AI. This work is entirely original and the artist is "renowned". Perhaps the originator for all the copies I see. Here we are in the some successes and some failures at figuring things out.

Pinterest, though, seems to be a magnet for AI-. The AI-generated garden, flower, plant, etc images. In my tests, I've found that more than 50% of the garden-related images are deemed AI-generated. So many gardens, plants and flowers with that "saccharine" quality. In flowers and plants there is too much symmetry, sunlight, and unusual colours. Too many blossoms on one plant, and so on.

Here's a great example - a hosta with the wrong flowers and strange-coloured leaves. 99% probability AI-generated. A "log-garden" that is 99% probability AI-generated.

Should we be taking stock every so often to see the progress? Or will one day it happen and "in a bound Biggles was freed." And we all are in an AI-generated world.

What do you think of this field of rapeseed and clover? I saw a few of these along Fourth Avenue on Saturday. This was at Fourth And Jordan Road.