There are thousands of wrong IDs as a result of this, especially in groups with not many active experts on iN to correct this. For example there are over 1500 IDs of a land snail Succinea putris in North America, but this species is absent there and confused by AI with local species that nobody can ID on iN, so Succinea putris from Old World is an only AI-suggestion for similar-looking snails. See discussion here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84909219
I’m sure there are hundreds of similar unnoticed cases. Months of work to clean it up. For sure AI-suggestions should be more careful and there should be much more on family-level, order-level and even above. “We’re pretty sure this is…” and “here are our top suggestions” are both way too confident.
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