This would help enormously. “Seen nearby” should not be constrained by season (as it is now), but ideally options that have not been Seen Nearby should either not be offered or it should be more clearly highlighted to novice users that these are unlikely and shouldn’t be selected unthinkingly.
This seems a real problem with all of the cases identified in the clean-up wiki, and many that have not been included there. Could one solution to this be to have the ability to flag taxa that should always (at least by novice users) be identified at a higher level? This could involve a vote on taxon pages - like IDs in that at least two and a clear majority of users would need to vote for what ID should be offered if the AI “thinks” it’s identified something. For example, “Trombidium holosericeum” should never be suggested, but if the AI lands on that species, it should offer the Family, for example.
This would require a second database of “safe IDs” to be linked to the taxonomic database used by the AI, but as the AI is not continuously updated, and as this would likely affect only perhaps a few thousand species, it doesn’t seem like it would be too onerous to implement. The AI would be trained exactly as it is now, but instead of offering species-level IDs for cases highlighted and agreed by the community, it would offer a “safe ID”. What do others think?