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Rejecting Shoes and Selfies: How We Stop Users from Burning Our AI Vision Tokens

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Within 48 hours of launching Plant Finder on Google Play , we checked our backend telemetry to see what users were scanning. We expected to see monsteras, tomatoes, rose bushes, and succulents. Instead, we saw: A worn-out leather sneaker. A user’s sleeping cat. A slice of pepperoni pizza. A car das…

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  1. 2026-10-29 15:59 · DEV Community — AI
    Rejecting Shoes and Selfies: How We Stop Users from Burning Our AI Vision Tokens

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