I’ve brought this up several times on the forums, and I’ll do so again here… in its current implementation, the Computer Vision IDs greatly diminish the accuracy of the data on iNaturalist, such that experts are dissuaded from contributing. Here’s a twitter thread from a contributor, Dr. Derek Henne…

Computer Vision identifications are hurting the reputation of iNaturalist

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