It seems to me as though the AI suggestions that iNaturalist makes have changed in the last day or two, and not for the better. I live in Massachusetts, so in the past, the AI suggestions have often ranged from quite good to spot-on. But now the suggestions for what is obviously a plant, where the A…

Thanks @pisum that was indeed the problem. Some poor coding on my part meant we expected photos to have a certain URL and recently many URLs have been changing. I’ve already made and deployed that fix so hopefully CV scores will be back to normal and unaffected by where they are hosted. This would h…

That photo (44509971) had a confusing background and emerging leaves, so it may have been a challenge for the AI. I cropped the photo to a portion of the frame, and it gave all woody plants as suggestions (I don’t know what it was so I don’t know how good they were).

Yes, that’s definitely a confusing photo! But I’ve had the same sorts of AI results with many observations in the past day or two, not just confusing photos, so I was just curious if something had changed.

It suggests only plants for me in that observation, though all wrong, but better than birds.

[image] lynnharper: It seems to me as though the AI suggestions that iNaturalist makes have changed in the last day or two probably related to this: [image] Better use of location in Computer Vision suggestions Hi all - we just released a minor change today on the web to remove non-nearby…

[image] pisum: i don’t see that old (mallard) ID. it does seem like in the past, the computer vision would have easily made the correct suggestion for this observation, and now it does not: Wow, you are right! I am pretty surprised to see that, too. I believe the AI should have had no problem…

Oh, that’s interesting! I wonder why the difference.

I just looked at the new suggestions on some of my existing observations and they have clearly gotten worse. A good example is this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70105342 Previously Eastern Harvestman (the correct ID) was the top suggestion, but all of the other IDs listed …

I bet you’re right that it’s related to that change - thanks for digging that up!

Would the suggestions be different when you drop the same photo in the upload form with no coordinates associated?

[image] carnifex: Would the suggestions be different when you drop the same photo in the upload form with or without coordinates, it’s interesting that the upload page brings back better results: [image] i reuploaded a test observation with that same photo, and the observation page suggest…

Did something change with the AI?

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Better use of location in Computer Vision suggestions Feature Requests	53	8600	April 13, 2021

Did something change with the AI?

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