@alex screenshots of odd suggestions. In these screenshots, clicking ‘don’t show nearby’ will usually return something closer, but not always. As my latest obs weren’t from around home it’s a bit different again and seemed slightly better, so I’ll also find a few next time I upload backyard observations. These ones are actually reasonably good compared to some I’ve seen at home. I’m aware it’s not offering ‘recommendations’ with these, but that doesn’t matter for novice users as they just go with what is presented…
Here are some examples with and without ‘show only nearby.’
Following on from my previous comment above, my question here is that when showing non-nearby guesses, it at least picked a spider wasp (among some other wasp guesses), so if that has higher confidence why does it not then suggest Pompiloidea or similar for the nearby one instead of suggesting nothing in the entire hymenoptera?
Previous threads:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-gives-surprisingly-bad-ai-suggestion-when-location-is-specified/36840
This one has some examples from my home observations:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-interesting-ai-suggestions-of-late/34847