Since the implementation of the suggested species list when making an ID, the number of submissions of species not found on the continent has climbed dramatically. It’s pretty clear that some users simply choose the top species in the list, or they just choose the species based on the common name wi…

Hi, I’m from the US, and currently in Ladakh, India (studying plants, etc.). Two brand new users are uploading observations, and the ID’s are all from other continents. Most have been US species suggestions, but there was a New Zealand one as well. There are very few observations in Ladakh, which ma…

there have been many discussions around factoring location into the AI suggestions. If you go to the topic lists you will be able to find them from the topic titles. The best thing you can do is have a “cut and paste” message you can put in comments on those observations, basically asking observers…

The AI has not yet been taught to factor in location, and it also is only just barely starting to learn to default to higher taxa. As a result, the AI offers species IDs for organisms all over the world, very often ID-ing them as species from California or NZ. This is very unfortunate. And yes, if…

[image] susanhewitt: The AI has not yet been taught to factor in location, To be 100 percent accurate (and no i dont want to be THAT GUY) it does factor in location in that it will explicitly tell you if the species suggested has been seen near where your observation was. What it does not do …

[image] kiwifergus: there have been many discussions around factoring location into the AI suggestions. If you go to the topic lists you will be able to find them from the topic titles. See: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/better-use-of-location-in-computer-vision-suggestions/915/2 [image…

I think iNat is making a mistake with using AI to suggest species as it is currently implemented. For trees we are getting a huge number of false suggested IDs on species which I attempt to curate like Ulmus thomasii and Picea rubens, and I cannot easily keep up with the flood of inane uploads of t…

This is so true and this “false friends” (as linguists say) leave many new users confused. In the places with small amount of observations it gets particullary annoying, since suggested species as far as I can tell are based on the number of observations - the greater it is, more frequently it show…

Good points about the number of observations Kastani. I think “rare” species with numerous “good” observations are subsequently vulnerable to a flood of incorrect observations based on the current AI approach: I give an example from my experience below. For Ulmus thomasii as an example, I have mad…

I was taught at medical school that only three groups of people can correctly use “we” in this way. Heads of state, editors of newpapers and people suffering from worms.

Species Suggestions for the Wrong Continent

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danaleeling May 16, 2019, 8:56pm 71

See: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/better-use-of-location-in-computer-vision-suggestions/915/2

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Species Suggestions for the Wrong Continent

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