Here’s an example [of an observation with AI-generated images, link removed by moderator] Don’t know whether there will be more, but should we update the Community Guidelines (to include rules about AI-generated images)?

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/machine_generated_content It should be covered by this guideline (though not explicitly including AICG posted by human), missed it at the first glance.

just a heads up I’ve removed the link to the observation for now

You shouldn’t post links to other users and their content on this forum.

Unless it is a link to your own obs, it will always be - removed by a moderator.

marina_gorbunovaorbunova-Yolkina: You shouldn’t post links to other users and their content on this forum. Just to add to Marina’s point: Forum policy is not to “name & shame” anyone. You can link to another’s observation in the forum for positive or neutral examples, though it should be u…

I don’t think the machine generated content prohibition specifically covers AI-generated images, although I supposed we could expand it to explicitly prohibit those. But AI-generated images would not be evidence of an organism, so yeah, you can vote that in the DQA. With so many images and image ed…

Thanks for the reply. I think we’d have to be explicit about what’s acceptable and what’s not. that’s why I made the post.

Just a heads-up, we’ve added a flag and a Data Quality Assessment metric to address these: https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/118284

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cyanfox April 20, 2023, 7:38am 3

If an observation has only AI-generated images, it should be marked as lacking evidence of an organism.

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