First of, a disclaimer. I have no proof of this, and I am not an expert on AI-generated content or copyright protections. AI art programs have recently become highly controversial and many artists who upload images online take steps to prevent their art from being used to generate outputs in program…

[image] simono: As a quick experiment, I tried to see if Stable Diffusion would be able to generate a recognisable image of Leucomonia bethia, a hawk moth there’s a page that allows you to search the training set used by Stable Diffusion. here are the results from 2 of 3 available sets for ‘l…

[image] wildskyflower: I surely make ‘particular choices’ about the lighting and angle I agree, this is subjective and I never felt 100% comfortable with it. This was language I was advised to use by a member of the Swiss Digital Law Center. I suppose there is case law with examples of instan…

[image] amdurso: In addition, we reasoned that most photos on iNat do not have an “individual character”. Almost all of them are taken by amateurs (i.e. not professional photographers who earn a living from their photography) who did not make particular choices about the lighting, angle, or timi…

It isn’t allowed to link them and they’re hidden/deleted now anyway, but you could imagine they might have looked something like one of these: [Screen Shot 2023-06-20 at 1.13.45 PM]

Ok that fishing duck is amazing

:joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: :joy: You see? This is exactly the kind of thing I was referring to a month ago when I said: [image] In defense of "lazy" observers (like me) Birds are the one taxon where I never ID more specifically than just ‘bird’; I’m pretty sure birders can get an observation to RG …

I tried the prompt “iNaturalist Theronia atalantae” into Stable Diffusion online. The results looked nothing like Theronia atalantae. The AI did generate insect-like images but they were clearly not of this world. Even a simple " Mallard " prompt produced some odd-looking ducks. It seems that, at l…

[image] barnabywalters: The threshold of originality you’re likely referring to when talking about “individual character” and “particular choices about the lighting, angle, or timing” does indeed exist, but as far as I know has mostly been used to argue that photos produced by continuous or auto…

[image] amdurso: In addition, we reasoned that most photos on iNat do not have an “individual character”. Almost all of them are taken by amateurs I didn’t comment on this earlier because I was just flabbergasted by this assumption. When identifying stuff, I routinely come across images taken…

[image] annkatrinrose: I didn’t comment on this earlier because I was just flabbergasted by this assumption. [image] barnabywalters: The threshold of originality you’re likely referring to when talking about “individual character” and “particular choices about the lighting, angle, or timi…

Are iNat observations being scraped by AI art generators?

General

wildskyflower June 20, 2023, 10:46pm 21

You see? This is exactly the kind of thing I was referring to a month ago when I said:

Topic		Replies	Views
Beware: AI Images on inat General	187	11466	October 7, 2025
Coming soon: Deep fake nature photography? General	26	2589	August 23, 2022
AI Images and how to Flag them? General question	28	1061	October 7, 2025
Article on AI generated image(s) on iNat General	66	3511	April 2, 2026
AI generated image passed the Computer Vision test General question , android-app , ai	62	4478	July 30, 2025

Are iNat observations being scraped by AI art generators?

Related topics