# Adding captive organisms to help the algorithm?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-captive-organisms-to-help-the-algorithm/15963>\
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**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-captive-organisms-to-help-the-algorithm/15963 "2020-09-03T12:29:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-captive-organisms-to-help-the-algorithm/15963/2 "2020-09-03T14:16:32Z")

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I think captive observations definitely have value for other iNat users.

As for whether they help with CV, well, that’s a bit more iffy, because it is “trained” on a random selection of images, and you have no way of knowing whether yours will be one of the selected images or not:  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-image-s-are-used-for-training-computer-vision/3307](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-image-s-are-used-for-training-computer-vision/3307)

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