Platform: website Browser: tried Brave and LibreWolf, same issue in both. Screenshots of what you are seeing: [screen02] Description of problem: I don’t know what’s changed this year, since this used to work just fine last year. But any observation that I’ve added this year has had completely …

Alright! Figured it out. My browsers were blocking the HTML 5 Canvas fingerprinting, and evidently the uploader needs that for… something? As soon as I disabled that for this site, the suggestions started working. Would’ve never guessed without seeing those messed up uploads… Case solved.

Plenty of observations of Covid, mostly of antibody/antigen tests. So if a bat looks like an antigen test, it will get suggested. Either that or the AI is achieving sentience and confirming that the pandemic was definitely a crossover event and not a humanmade virus leaked from a lab.

This has happened to me yesterday. Last night I uploaded 24 observations from my moth-walk and I think in 3 of them it suggested something wildly off. Twice I just typed in the correct name, in one moth I knew I had seen it before, but couldn’t remember the name. A bit annoying when the CV suggested…

Sometimes. And sometimes not. Doesn’t make any difference, all suggestions are 100% incorrect in the upload interface. When I try the same photo again, it usually generates a different random list. (Though mostly bats.) Case in point: a goofy photo of a blackbird that got too close to a camera. [s…

I’ve noticed recently the inaturalist app on my iPhone can’t identify rabbits very well and some other things it struggles with, but some things are ok. Here’s a screen shot of my iPhone. [Screenshot 2024-04-09 at 11.12.55 PM] The website works fine, however

Similarly, I have been noticing for a couple of weeks that the CV on my android has been suggesting random IDs that are not even the right kingdom. Eg. Bumble bees, which I ID a lot, has the suggestion of a bird. Ot used to get these accurate even when the bee was a tiny dot in the photo. I’m sure t…

Thanks for the examples, but without the orginal photo for us test with, knowing the location of the observation, and knowing whether or not you entered a location before getting a suggestion, there isn’t really anything we can use for an investigation. If you can share those, then we can take a loo…

Location first. And also a broad taxon to point CV in the right direction - this obs of a bee on a flower … is for The Bee, not the flower.

The example I have given is for identifying observations of bumble bees in New Zealand. I filter on Location = New Zealand and Genus = Bombus. Mostly the bumble bees have accurate suggestions like B. terrestris or B. ruderatus as first and second choices. To have a bird suggested as second option is…

picking up on the orange stripe for a blurred picture of that swallow ?

I agree it should be fixed, but identifying a bat as coronavirus is kinda funny. :D [image] zoology123: SARS COV 2? How is that in the CV system, it’s impossible to ID from a normal photo. You need like a high powered microscope. I think some people photographed their test results.

Completely inaccurate species suggestions

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Completely inaccurate species suggestions

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