I often see it mentioned on here how amazing the Computer Vision AI is at making identifications. I’ve even seen it suggested how the AI will ultimately replace the need for human identifications, to which I laugh. On the other hand, I don’t see nearly enough complaints about the rampant misidentifi…

[image] joe_fish: rarely touch the insect observations on here due to the overwhelming number of misidentifications Do what you love. :)

there are plenty of other forum posts listing and compiling issues with the computer vision they’re definitely not being ignored or remaining unseen

I see the same problem with Orthoptera, and I’m sure it’s ubiquitous in any group where the diversity in species is much greater than the diversity in appearance. It’s very time consuming to untangle all the mistakes and hard to convince people that the observation is out of range when they can see …

Mass biogeographic idiocy of the AI

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Mass biogeographic idiocy of the AI

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