My idea is that, if we could manually adjust computer IDs not to identify certain things from certain area to species level, it would make computer IDs much more accurate. (feel free to move this to feature request- at the moment I’m trying to discuss before requesting it as a feature. Often there’…

In my opinion, this is more of a user issue than a CV issue. The CV does the best it can based on its training set, and it’s made clear to users that the CV suggestions are suggestions only. It is up to the user to decide whether to go with the species specific ID or if to keep it at a genus (or a…

[image] earthknight: more of a user issue than a CV issue also, I’m not sure the average casual user even knows that a Genus is broader than a species, or what a Genus is… not their fault, even if you learned it in high school it’s easy to forget.

[image] egordon88: except in situations where it’s not sure what to recommend, then you might get a species first (that coding I don’t like) Ohh that’s why this happens, yeah this is the opposite of what should be happening… But at what level is it “not sure what to recommend”? In your exampl…

I often click thru to What’s This (if there are already 2 IDs - to see the web of life, and choose the taxon where I am confident) I work from Unknowns so have everything on offer. Definitely this for the ID, and could be this in a comment. If that What’s This list were always a clickable option, t…

There is a feature request under review which is pretty much what you are asking I think (?) : https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/in-cases-where-the-cv-is-not-pretty-sure-of-anything-offer-a-suggestion-of-a-higher-taxa/14781

Oh perfect, thanks for the reminder!

This is an idea I could get behind. Stop the CV from recommending species ID’s in groups where we know for sure that typical iNaturalist photos can’t be ID’d to species. This doesn’t interfere with ID’s people make, people who may actually know. It doesn’t prevent correct ID of a species that has…

Yes, exactly what I was thinking. Or maybe CV could programme itself to recommend higher taxa when certain IDs are disagreed often.

It is Under Review. We can hope.

As someone who is relatively new this platform, I absolutely agree with these ideas. Some more manual control over the CV model’s suggestions would go a long way. As an example: I had particular trouble with an orbweaver genus (Socca), because the majority of them present are of 1 species (S. pust…

Computer suggestion being ''too precise''

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Computer suggestion being ''too precise''

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