AI Safety and Transparency

Effective date: 29 September 2026. Last updated: 29 September 2026.

myEdenry uses AI to help you make sense of your plants and garden. This page explains where AI is used, how far to trust it, and when to ask an expert instead.

1. Where AI is used

• Plant identification from a photo you submit.
• Plant-health diagnosis from your photos, your description, your care history and local weather.
• Voice journal: your recording is turned into text, and the text is turned into suggested journal entries that you review before saving.
• Garden assistant: answers questions using your question and relevant garden records.

These features run on third-party AI providers. Photos are analysed by Pl@ntNet, voice recordings are transcribed by Sarvam AI, a speech-to-text provider, and text is processed by language models hosted by Together AI. They run only when you use the feature. Our Privacy Policy explains what each provider receives.

2. AI can be wrong

Identifications and diagnoses are shown with a confidence indicator because they are estimates. A high confidence means likely, not certain. Mistakes are more common with unusual species, young plants, blurry or dark photos, and problems that look alike. Weather and location information can be incomplete or not match the conditions in your exact spot. The assistant can misread your records or state something that is not true. Treat every result as a starting point and check it against what you see.

3. When to get expert help instead

myEdenry does not replace professional agricultural, medical, veterinary, toxicology or emergency advice. Take extra care with:

• Eating plants. Never eat a plant, or feed one to an animal, because the app identified it. Many poisonous plants closely resemble edible ones.
• Poisonous plants, children and pets. Toxicity and pet-safety notes are for general awareness and may be incomplete. If a person or animal may have eaten something harmful, contact emergency medical services or a veterinarian immediately. Do not wait for the app.
• Pesticides and other chemicals. myEdenry keeps treatment suggestions to common, low-risk gardening practice. Always follow the product label and local rules, and ask a professional before using anything hazardous.
• Food safety. Follow the label waiting period before harvesting anything that has been treated.
• Serious or spreading plant disease, and commercial crops. Ask an agricultural extension service, a nursery professional or a qualified horticulturist.

4. You stay in control

AI in myEdenry only suggests. Nothing is added to your journal from a voice recording until you confirm it, you choose whether to accept an identification, and you decide what to do in your garden. Facts about your account, such as your settings and reminders, come from our database, not from AI.

5. Tell us when something looks wrong

Suggestions, identifications and diagnoses include a feedback control. Please use it, or write to support@myedenry.com, if a result seems wrong or unsafe.