Fingers in photos

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@chrisc

I note this thread has raised some other issues about the Computer Vision (CV) used on iNaturalist, which I have always, presumably incorrectly, referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI) - whether it might be confused by fingers, highlighting with circles etc, that I might raise as a separate topic.

a separate topic already exists for this. so if folks want to discuss this more, i suggest re-opening that topic: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/hands-in-observations/10878.

that said, the relevant staff comments from that thread were:

@tiwane

Don’t worry too much about how it will affect the machine learning.

@tiwane

if photos of a species on iNat often have hands in them, the computer vision model will have been trained on photos that include hands.