I don’t really have a personal opinion on this yet, but I was curious what other people think about this subject.

I still have no idea what you’re asking. In that way, AI has no impact on nature whatsoever? Are you asking about the environmental impact of the technology that AI runs on? Are you talking about how AI has changed the way that people interact with nature? Or some other third thing?

I think I mean the way AI has changed the way that people interact with nature.

In that case, this isn’t about AI’s impact on nature at all, but about how AI has changed human culture.

I think many people have long forgotten that they are also a part of nature. We have been travelling further away from being hunters and gatherers and thus connected to the land. If AI can help get people out and reconnect to the other life on this earth and educate them by way of identifying and in…

With CV on INaturalist as AI technology, there are definitely a huge flaw in suggesting the wrong species which I was quite a victim of. The problem worsens with Seek since you can’t really change the species on the Seek’s observations in which go into the challenges.

[image] jessmw: If AI can help get people out and reconnect to the other life on this earth and educate them by way of identifying and informing, then that is a great thing in my eyes. Pro: creating awareness A corresponding con is creating misinformation. AI-generated “nature photographs” c…

Well at least iNat’s CV won’t be taking the world over in a massive AI apocalypse anytime soon.

If AI can just take care of all my household chores so i can get out the house and into the garden/ nature then that will be fantastic :sweat_smile:

Being at present AI stupid and biased depending on how its creator has created it, the impact will be detrimental if used in managing nature.

[image] Italopithecus: if used in managing nature. Human: How can we slow deforestation? AI: You can try gluing the trees back in place. Just a joke; not an actual conversation.

AI's impact on nature, what are the pros and cons?

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jasonhernandez74 October 3, 2024, 8:44pm 9

A corresponding con is creating misinformation. AI-generated “nature photographs” can create a wrong impression about nature and, even worse, potentially create the impression that nature is thriving better than it really is.

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