Should I be worried

[Dan Maynard]

7 hours ago, tree-fancier123 said:

technical query - seeing as you mentioned you're a part time programmer.

Thoughts about lack of question mark in thread title? 

I don't know a huge amount about all this AI stuff though, except that the big cost is providing training.  I guess that asking questions and getting answers gives them more conversations to feed the beast, essentially for free - rather than paying people in India.

 

So I guess the title comes from a ChatGPT type "generate a question for arborists" type prompt and it doesn't really understand grammar as such.

[tree-fancier123]

8 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

I don't know a huge amount about all this AI stuff though, except that the big cost is providing training.  I guess that asking questions and getting answers gives them more conversations to feed the beast, essentially for free - rather than paying people in India.

 

So I guess the title comes from a ChatGPT type "generate a question for arborists" type prompt and it doesn't really understand grammar as such.

ok, thanks for reply, although google reverse image search of the complete pic by cul de sac or road gives only the arbtalk as exact match.

It may be something that is learning, as if Id asked a question I would have probably checked the site for a day or two after, even if no reply in the first few hours

[Dan Maynard]

Something is fishy about the picture though, fungus stem doesn't appear from the edge of the cut like that. Doesn't exist anywhere else maybe because AI generated for the post.

[AHPP]

25 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

I don't know a huge amount about all this AI stuff though, except that the big cost is providing training.  I guess that asking questions and getting answers gives them more conversations to feed the beast, essentially for free - rather than paying people in India.

 

All it’s doing is averaging/summarising the things people have put on the internet. People. Average people. The people in the middle of the bell curve. Pig ignorant slags whose collective wit has probably already been harnessed to control the rods in nuclear reactors. I might move closer to one. Get it over with quickly. Christ we’ve cocked this planet up. 

[Rob2025]

20 hours ago, daltontrees said:

Worried about what, exactly? And I mean 'exactly'.

Worried that the structural integrity of the tree may be compromised. That rot might have set in. Does the fungus show up at the start of decay or at an advanced stage.

[daltontrees]

2 hours ago, Rob2025 said:

Worried that the structural integrity of the tree may be compromised. That rot might have set in. Does the fungus show up at the start of decay or at an advanced stage.

That growth is Cerioporus squamosus. Yes decay has set in. Early days and not a fast mover. Maybe a decade or so before structrual integrity is compromised.

Worrying about tree decay is pointless, you can't stop it. Worrying about harm or damage to people or property is a different matter. You haven't given any context, so the risk can't be assessed. 

[Steven P]

10 hours ago, AHPP said:

All it’s doing is averaging/summarising the things people have put on the internet. People. Average people. The people in the middle of the bell curve. Pig ignorant slags whose collective wit has probably already been harnessed to control the rods in nuclear reactors. I might move closer to one. Get it over with quickly. Christ we’ve cocked this planet up. 

 

As much as I can tell, yes, AI I just a fancy google search - it doesn't have any intelligence, just able to take all the results and work out the most common

[tree-fancier123]

13 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

I don't know a huge amount about all this AI stuff though, except that the big cost is providing training.  I guess that asking questions and getting answers gives them more conversations to feed the beast, essentially for free - rather than paying people in India.

 

So I guess the title comes from a ChatGPT type "generate a question for arborists" type prompt and it doesn't really understand grammar as such.

and now the OP has posted again we gain a deep look inside the workings of the machine 

advice - fell

[slack ma girdle]

On 06/08/2025 at 13:57, Rob2025 said:

 

1. Fungal Growth (Likely Dryad’s Saddle – Polyporus squamosus):
   • The bracket fungus visible is growing from the wound site of a previously cut branch. This is growing on the base of 100 year old twin stem sycamore tree. 
2.  

 

I have found it generally associated with dead wood, and i would guess that it will happily within the wound compartment for many years.

I would be more concerned about root damage from the surrounding development.