@earthknight I am totally onboard with the iNaturalist mission statement and your perspective on the role our human observations contribute in that. And I am definitely not an AI or CV advocate or apologist. The issue we face over and over on iNat is that, whether we use it or ignore it or believe it or like it or hate it, CV is an integral part of the current structure for the general population of iNatters to connect with the name of an organism.
I try to think of an analogy for my perspective on CV. Perhaps I view it like a young, ill-trained, disobedient puppy. We can’t ignore its presence. For better or worse, it is part of the audience for our human contributions to the platform. IF it is going to have any useful role as a companion for we human iNatters, it needs to be trained properly. CV is already misguiding so many identification decisions worldwide and fauna/flora-wide that it (i.e., it’s failures) contributes significantly to the negative attitudes out in the general scientific community towards iNaturalist. I simply think each of us who are willing should make the effort to make sure the inevitable inputs to CV are useful for future training sets.