Agrivoltaics—Not Romanticized AI Art

On Earth Day, a relative who diverges from me on many political topics posted this to Facebook:

I didn't respond there because I know better than to get into it on Facebook because… who has the time?

But I do have thoughts.

1. This is one of the many pieces of AI-generated "art" that have been showing up on Facebook. So thanks for putting more visual pollution into my feed.
2. This is not at all what it looks like when a farm family decides to put a solar array onto their land. The image makes it look like a return to the Dust Bowl in which we're all going to starve. 
3. Solar panels are not located inches above the ground, and the plants below are not dead and brown. The combination of solar and farming is called agrivoltaics, which I figured out pretty easily by searching for just a few minutes, and there's lots of information and photos of people growing plants and managing livestock under and adjacent to solar panels (see below for a few).
   
4. The idea that farmers would replace a field of sunflowers (and mixed produce, implied by the tomatoes and other vegetables in the foreground) is pretty strange. If anything, it would be fields where they alternate commodity soybeans and corn, since those cover most of the Midwest. The fertilizers used to grow those crops are poisoning the water supplies of farm families, nearby towns, and the downstream lakes and rivers, including the Mississippi. But corn and soybeans are not picturesque enough, so that's not what is shown. 
5. The hay bale the Hee Haw-era farmer is sitting on basically doesn't exist on farms anymore. Farmers now bale hay into broad cylinder shapes as big as a car, much too large for humans to lift. Sometimes the hay is instead piled into long mounds that are covered in plastic. Silos are becoming a thing of the past, I've been told, since each farm building is taxed; covering the hay with plastic gets around the taxation.

All in all, the AI image is a romanticized version of farming, juxtaposed with an imaginary evil version of solar energy.

Here are a few photos of what solar on farms/agrivoltaics actually looks like: