Platform: Website Browser: Firefox Screenshots of what you are seeing: [image] [image] Description of problem: This occurred on about six of the 34 observations I uploaded today. The computer vision offers only these three options and none of them look anything like the organisms in the photos…

Hi @isopodguy , This bug is familiar to me. CV uses small previews for identification. In some cases, this preview is just a small black rectangle. Probably, this is due to unstable internet connection somewhere or server capacity problems. So, CV is just identifying black picture as an underwater …

it seems to be an issue only with firefox, I have also had it a few times

It might help to crop the photos, so: cut out the object so it takes up most of the photo. As far as I understand, the CV doesn’t actually look at the small organism in the middle of the photo while disregarding the surroundings. It looks at all the pixels and tries to find pictures in its database …

see also https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ai-offline-not-working/59503 . Firefox has such problems if it endured a computer sleep and wake-up cycle.

and also https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/everythings-coming-up-snowflakes/60935

Last week I had the same problem on 640 observations…it wanted everything to be a bat. I use floorp for my browser. - Files were coming directly from an SD card from a panasonic and olympus camera, using their standard file nomenclature.

Seems to be the same as this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cv-giving-the-same-incorrect-suggestions-on-every-uploaded-observation/61443 [image] a_teitzel: it wanted everything to be a bat That sounds like this issue: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cv-suggestions-are-different-and-mainl…

Apparently, this behavior is caused by a specific privacy feature called resist fingerprinting (which has nothing to do with fingerprints). I’m also wondering if it’s related to isopodguy’s problem since they are using Firefox (which Floorp is based on).

[image] apseregin: This bug is familiar to me. CV uses small previews for identification. In some cases, this preview is just a small black rectangle. Probably, this is due to unstable internet connection somewhere or server capacity problems. So, CV is just identifying black picture as an unde…

CV gives the same unusual, incorrect suggestions on multiple observations

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DianaStuder May 9, 2025, 8:05am 8

Is the photo file named … sea s ? or bat… ?
Either way - you can start the CV with - this obs is for … at …

iNat ID defaults to Ocotea bullata regardless of what the photo is

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