I understand that far more people are observing than identifying. I’d like to help with the latter, but have found it to be technically less easy than I expected. For instance, on the app on the phone, the AI suggests a species which you can confirm or not. On the website, it does not do so. Als…

[image] raphael1c: the AI suggests a species which you can confirm or not. On the website, it does not do so. The website does offer Computer Vision (since its not really AI) suggestions. The boxes for the CV suggestions are in different spots than the app. You can go directly to an observati…

[image] raphael1c: Also, I’d like to add ID’s to observations marked “Unidentified.” It seems like it should be easy to see only “Unidentified” observations from a given place. But I’ve yet to figure it out. Theres two ways of seeing unidentified observations on iNaturalist’s identify panel: …

It is very commendable that you want to start identifying. Just don’t trust the AI suggestions blindly. Even though INaturalists AI is quite good, it should always be double checked with other sources. Stick to the level of ID you are comfortable with. If you want to identify “unknowns”, you have t…

I also mostly rescue things marked as unknown. Here are my two sources of things to identify: select a date (about 1 year old) and select the options “unknown” (I keep location as global, since I almost do only coarse IDs, frogs in China look the same as frogs here and both just get marked as Anu…

[image] sirhck: Even though INaturalists AI is quite good This should have been phrased slightly differently: “Even though iNaturalist’s AI is quite good in high-volume areas for frequently observed species…” I regularly come across situations where it seems to be guessing wildly.

Hey there! Totally get where you’re coming from - identifying species can be quite the puzzle at times. As for adding IDs to those “Unidentified” observations, it should definitely be made simpler. It would be great to have an easier way to filter through those specific observations from a certain…

That’s what one expects from an AI. Young dicots look all the same, so many observations remain unidentified and the AI has no training material for the species. As a result, unknown images are projected onto the few species it knows (in my region foxglove, Lapsana and a free more). I think more pe…

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Difficulties with Identifying

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