@capnthommo @CiaraNi Cant count the times I've silently accused ppl of posting AI pics of especially beautiful and colorful insects before looking at some other observations and finding that yea, sometimes that species is really that vividly colorful. Doesn't help that photo editors now use "AI" to enhance details either.

@CiaraNi People are spending quite some time on the community boards trying to figure out how to keep that stuff from destroying the usability of these platforms in scientific data sets. The goddamn time it takes just to prove that a "photo" is genAI. I mean even on your post ppl are like "Where's the proof?". It truly is all so unnecessary.

@CiaraNi We've started seeing rare species being uploaded to iNaturalist and other citizen science platforms and then it turns out it's AI and I just don't see whyyyy people are doing that. Like No, your AI imagination of a rare insect isn't just as good as someone finding a living specimen, what do you mean. Who profits from that. Who wants to see a "photo" of a fake bird. What's going on.