I am not sure what is the correct topic to post this question under, so I trust that the mod will put it where it needs to be. I have several observations of organisms I have no idea what they are (and neither does iNat) that I submitted last week that are still without any input from other members…

Where I am, we have a Northern Water Dragon and Gilbert’s Dragon. The CV will throw up NWD for every dragon you post in my area. It rarely mentions Gilbert’s. The two can look very alike and I’ve recently gone through my observations after I hit the books and worked out a few key points of differenc…

Yeah. The computer vision periodically corrects me when I’m making obvious mistakes - I assumed something was a Sonchus (Sowthistle) species, and iNat threw up “False Cowthistle” and I kind of just stopped and went ‘huh’, but it regularly makes some incredibly frustrating suggestions. There are arou…

SW WA is a bit like the Top End in that regard. Lots of variations on the theme that really test the CV. And people not realising just how many species there are, and assuming they are all the same couple of species. But you are in an amazing part of the world. (Yes, we were that couple parked on t…

Congratulations! The orchids are wonderful, though I take pains not to ID most of those even when I think I can because I am deeply aware of how little I know (a plant I would have sworn was Caladenia latifolia was identified as a hybrid of it and I’m just steering clear…) It is indeed wonderful. I…

[image] silverydragon: but it regularly makes some incredibly frustrating suggestions. There are around fourteen Conostylis species just in Perth, WA, not all of them are the bristly or spiny species… most of them don’t have the minimum required number of observations yet to enter the AI trai…

I know :( kind of? I forget how it works occasionally, I am new and easy to distract down some rabbithole or other. It’s just… mildly frustrating, especially with a genus like that. I’ll work on it.

[image] silverydragon: every time I type Lobelia it proposes Section I still hope someone will tell me how to prompt iNat to offer the Genus. My shortest route is to take the wrong sp, delete the sp - and voila, I have an ID to Genus. Clickety clickety. PS Computer Vision needs 100 pictures…

They’re usually options right next door to each other? I just typed it on my laptop and genus came up first, section second. I thought it was the other way around… might be a laptop thing.

Tried 3 at random looking for a good example - and they all came up Genus first. Perhaps that glitch is sorted.

Hopefully! Now just to ensure I don’t click Section anyway, hah.

Do older unidentified observations get buried and less likely to get attention?

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Do older unidentified observations get buried and less likely to get attention?

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