How would ChatGPT do in an Aquascaping Competition?

[JayP]

So I'm sitting here trying to create a plant layout for the garden scape and a thought came across my mind; What would ChatGPT do?
I provided the tank size, substrate, (very long) plant list, and aquascaping style and said while you're at it, create an image of the final scape. As you would guess, ChatGPT knows the "rules" for a Dutch scape but doesn't have much of a human artistic touch, so the result is very clinical indeed. It also used synthetic images for many of the plants and therefore is a bit off on leaf shapes and colors. It only took a few minutes though. And to be fair, I didn't go down the list first to balance out plant colors.

This reminds me of the days when computer scientists were trying to program computers to challenge the great chess masters. It took a while but they eventually did it. So how far away are we from AI producing a truly competition worthy aquascape?

 

[Kwyet]

A long way I hope! Although, it doesn’t look to me like the AI knew the Dutch guidelines at all.

 

[Capraquaria]

As gen AI is rapidly improving. I don't think it will be long. So much of it is how you prompt the AI. This was just my first pass at asking Chat GPT to generate a diorama aquascape with small leaved epiphytes and Frodo stone. Not going to win IAPLC OR KIAC with this one, but would be fun to feed it the same prompt a year from now. Honestly, it's better than my first attempt at a scape IRL, although the poor ember tetras look a bit too photoshopped

 

[Mr. Silly Goose]

@JayP try giving it (as a document or link) the Dutch rules and ask it to recreate the layout based on the rules. I'm curious what the results would be

 

[JayP]

@JayP try giving it (as a document or link) the Dutch rules and ask it to recreate the layout based on the rules. I'm curious what the results would be

So I tried it once before asking it for an image and it did give me a lot of additional information regarding the rules/guidelines of a Dutch scape. I think the problem is, while it can gather the rules, It's just not very good at interpreting the rules. Also, after examining the photo more, it's idea of what some of these plants look like in submersed form is pretty far off.

 

[SmartAlec13]

I was gonna say, doesn't look like it knows Dutch rules very well - red groups against the walls is a big no-no from the little I know.

 

[TheWetScape]

the farm plots though

 

[Dennis Wong]

 

[ElleDee]

It's not just that the plants don't look right, there are massive discrepancies between the text and the graphic.

 

[Jeff Miotke]

So I tried it once before asking it for an image and it did give me a lot of additional information regarding the rules/guidelines of a Dutch scape. I think the problem is, while it can gather the rules, It's just not very good at interpreting the rules. Also, after examining the photo more, it's idea of what some of these plants look like in submersed form is pretty far off.

In all fairness….how many people are good at interpreting the Dutch rules?

 

[SingAlongWithTsing]

It already broke the 1 plant species per 10cm of tank width limit rule. (Plants on the walls don't fall under the limit).

 

[JayP]

It already broke the 1 plant species per 10cm of tank width limit rule. (Plants on the walls don't fall under the limit).

Yeah, I just told it to use plants on the list but not how many. I did tell it the tank dimensions though, so it completely ignored that guideline.

 

[JayP]

In all fairness….how many people are good at interpreting the Dutch rules?

Like they said in the other AI thread, "Garbage in, garbage out".