AI generated image passed the Computer Vision test

[upupa-epops]

@spiphany

This “experiment” could have been carried out without actually uploading any observation to iNat – it would be easy enough to take a screenshot of the upload screen with the CV suggestions to “prove” that it “correctly” identified the AI image, no need to finish the upload process.

Indeed, or you could use the CV demo page at https://www.inaturalist.org/computer_vision_demo

A similar situation was discussed in this old thread:

@botanising

I’ve been using DALL·E 2 to create botanical specimens. Would it interfere with iNaturalist’s algorithm if I uploaded these to iNaturalist? Of course, I wouldn’t complete any uploads as recorded observations, but I’d be interested to see iNaturalist’s species suggestions.

EDIT: To be clear, I do not intend to submit these images as observations. I have been using iNaturalist for several years, and would never falsify any of my records.

What I’m asking is whether it would be appropriate to use iNaturalist to try to identify the plant forms created by the AI. Does iNaturalist’s algorithm learn from our images? Would uploading AI-generated images to view the suggested species interfere with the algorithm?