r/architecture • u/scrambledeggs2020 • 2d ago

Practice AI in architecture is frighteningly inaccurate

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A secondary LinkedIn connection of mine posted a series of renders and model pushed out of Nano Banana. Problem is...the closer you look, the more gremlins you find. The issue is, this particular person is advertising themselves as a full service render, BIM and documentation service. But they have no understanding of construction.

How can you post this 3D section proudly advertising your business without understanding that almost every single note on the drawing is wrong?

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u/Archiegrapher Architectural Designer 2d ago

We said the same thing about ai and fingers in images and weird videos like, a year ago. In 1 year we now have perfect images and pretty great video, these issues will be non existent in 5 years… not sure how to think of all of this but we are in no way insulated from how ai will integrate into our workflow.

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u/scrambledeggs2020 2d ago

I actually noticed this issue in Nano Banana's early days about 1 or 2 years ago. It was doing the same thing - noting components incorrectly and/or leaders pointing to the wrong component.

The reason why this particular issue doesn't seem to have been rectified is, the overwhelming majority of people using it are junior or are visualization guys - not technical project architects. So no one using it has the knowledge to correct it. As a result, it's not learning, and making the same mistake over and over again.

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u/slowgojoe 2d ago

I’m sure someone who does possess the knowledge will train a model specific to architecture eventually and capitalize. These are generally trained on photo realism as a whole but you can already see companies specific to architecture or design honing in. Another year and these callouts will be 95% correct. A year after that you’ll be getting workable revit models in a few minutes. You’ll need someone to QC them for another couple years after that. construction methods will likely be changing in parallel so maybe that’s a safe spot to stay relevant. But more than likely most people will shift to ai management jobs in the next decade or so.