Yeah, a lot of people using the app don’t realize that iNat observations are automatically used as biodiversity data points, and quite possibly they wouldn’t even know what that means if they were informed of it.
I assume the process is that they hear about iNat as an app that uses AI to identify organisms, and test it with their own or someone else’s photos, not caring about the accuracy of date or location or anything (and if it was like Seek or ChatGPT or Google Lens or any other identification AI, that would be the normal way to use it!). Maybe some of them don’t even realize it’s being posted publicly for other people to see. Or if they do, they assume it’s like facebook where the post is never used for anything else after the initial discussion.
For those of us who’ve been using it for years and gotten used to the way things work…