GeoHearth AI · Transparency

AI & Environmental Disclaimer

Important limitations of environmental datasets, models and AI-assisted recommendations.

Effective: September 28, 2026 · Last updated: September 28, 2026
GeoHearth is not professional advice. Important health, safety, infrastructure, construction, regulatory and financial decisions should be verified with authoritative local data and qualified professionals.

AI-assisted recommendations

GeoHearth combines environmental datasets, algorithms and, where enabled, AI-assisted text to help users explore possible environmental conditions and interventions. AI-assisted output can be wrong. A recommendation being generated by AI does not make it scientifically validated, locally appropriate, legally permitted or safe to implement.

By default, Qwen runs in a temporary worker in supported browsers; Safari local-model generation is paused to prevent memory-related reloads. If the optional hosted-Qwen mode is enabled, selected-area evidence and prompts are sent to GeoHearth's server and its configured model host. Automated evidence checks are not independent scientific validation, and the model may still invent details.

Environmental-data limitations

  • Air-quality model values may represent a broad geographic area rather than a street-level monitor.
  • Satellite land-surface temperature is different from human-experienced air temperature.
  • Tree-canopy datasets may represent an earlier observation year and may not reflect recent planting or removal.
  • Mapped water features can be incomplete.
  • Shade calculations depend on mapped geometry and assumptions.
  • Satellite imagery may contain cloud gaps, observation delay and sensor limitations.

GeoHearth should distinguish measured values, modeled estimates, unavailable data and recommendations and should not fabricate values when a source is unavailable.

Before acting

Do not use GeoHearth output as the sole basis for decisions concerning health, safety, construction, infrastructure, regulatory compliance, tree planting on land you do not control or significant expenditure. Verify important recommendations using authoritative local data and, where appropriate, qualified professionals and public authorities.