If the ID is based solely on the AI’s all-too-often incorrect assertions, there is zero reason that ID should be able to opt-out of the community ID. For inattentive users who do this, it can create misidentifications that are very difficult to correct, particularly in taxa with low engagement on he…

[image] bazwal: It’s best to avoid attributing motivations to people based on your perceptions of their tone. I agree. If I read your comments wrongly, I apologize.

[image] exonie: computer vision’s top suggestion (“We’re pretty sure this is…”) does a lot better than most, users The problem here is that a lot of observations don’t get that top suggestion. The CV seems to have gotten a lot stupider lately, so I’ll show it a chickadee or junco and it’ll co…

I think a middle-ground would be that observations from opted-out users be made casual if they disagree with the Community ID, perhaps at a 3-1 standard. Bottom line is that there’s no reason for opted-out, evidently incorrect IDs to sit at ‘Needs ID’ forever. There are many reasons to keep the opti…

@cgbc just as a reminder, the forum rules don’t allow bringing issues about specific iNat users into the forum, so i think it would be better if you deleted that photo or blurred the name there. If you think someone blocked you to avoid your ID on their observation, which is against the iNat guideli…

Only loosely related to this topic: Should it be allowed to opt out with observations without any ID at all? These may stay as ‘unknown’ forever. There might be legitimate use cases, no idea, but it does annoy me when IDing unknowns I have to admit.

Actually, I had to opt out a while back. I had someone put an absolutely ludicrous ID on a Bombus affinis observation, sending it to Genus limbo. So I opted out for a couple of months until I got a couple more ID’s to get it back to species. Currently, it’s opted in.

I see why you clicked the ‘Community taxon can’t be improved’ button to clear up the range maps, but I’m slightly conflicted, because of course you do believe the community taxon can be improved - in your example it is at genus, but you clearly think it can be identified to species. The problem, as…

Legislation does not cure problems, but education can improve the outcome.

I believe once the disagreeing poster’s ID becomes Maverick the observation becomes casual, right?

For a brief moment I misread the title of this request as " All IDs should not be eligible for Community ID Opt-outs" and thought it referred to not allowing opt-outs for, say Order or Class level IDs (e.g. someone adds a “bird” but has a blanket opt-out on all of their observations, so ID can never…

Computer vision IDs should not be eligible for Community ID opt-outs

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Computer vision IDs should not be eligible for Community ID opt-outs

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