iNaturalist's earthworm problem and how to fix it

[upupa-epops]

@thirty_legs

“Can earthworm identification ever be left to the combination of untrained observers and a trigger-happy AI, i.e. can I ever take a break from this?”

As of October this species was still getting CV-assisted IDs from app submissions despite being out of the web CV since February:

@upupa-epops

I just checked up on my personal CV problem species (Narceus americanus) and noticed that it is still getting CV-suggested IDs despite it having been removed from the model 5 months ago (and might now be above the threshold to be included again as a result). Those IDs are coming from observations uploaded via Seek and iNat Next. It looks like this issue was already raised a year ago here but another aspect I wasn’t aware of until just now.

Even without the CV there is a steady flow of species level IDs coming in because of people having learned the species either from iNat or other sources.