# "Flora DALL·Eensis": botanical specimens created with AI

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**Created:** [September 5, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/flora-dall-eensis-botanical-specimens-created-with-ai/35243 "2022-09-05T17:11:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/flora-dall-eensis-botanical-specimens-created-with-ai/35243/21 "2022-10-04T01:02:44Z")

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> [@charlie](#):
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> I tried putting some specific sedge species into dall-e at one point, curious if it would have diagnostic features, but it was just generic sedge looking things

Perhaps, but I thought of a perhaps more insidious use. This wasn’t DALL-E, but a different AI art generator; as part of my prompt, I mentioned redwoods. Now, redwoods are distinctive enough that a decent AI can generate images recognizable as such.

It occurs to me that this could, if used nefariously, do more harm than creating nonexistent species. Generate images of redwoods – which our CV can correctly identify as such – and put in whatever fake location you want. You could create the impression of a taxon being much more widespread than is actually the case, and without the risk of a reverse image search finding out where the picture was actually taken.

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**Author:** ![charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@charlie](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/charlie)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/flora-dall-eensis-botanical-specimens-created-with-ai/35243/22 "2022-10-05T18:50:51Z")

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that sounds like more effort than just stealing photos of real redwoods, which happens all the time. Seems unlikely to come up, but i am always surprised by the odd misuses people come up with to use inat

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**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/flora-dall-eensis-botanical-specimens-created-with-ai/35243/23 "2022-12-04T18:51:08Z")

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