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Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plants, depending on the year, are really hard to identify even with a trained eye. If an AI algorithm is training on, say, only the blooming season versions of a plant, then it will do a poor job of identifying the plant in the Fall. Same for human submissions, usually they are photographed when they are in bloom.

I teach an environmental science course and we have a lab where I have students use iNaturalist for plant identification but the Fall semester students are always at a disadvantage, we have to crack open the dying plants for identification.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've been comparing its results to plantnet, same time of year, same exact pictures even, and Seek is getting wrecked in comparison. That said I don't have any idea how either app even works.