The role of CV in the new mobile app

I sympathize with this feeling (as I’ve commented on other occasions (e.g. 1, 2), some of the peculiarities in the way the CV is trained are a big problem for bees, which present similar identification challenges as chironomids), and it is discouraging to realize that even if I educate one observer about why they should be cautious when using the CV suggestions, tomorrow someone else will come along and make the same mistake. And the CV doesn’t seem to improve.

But…this is probably getting rather off topic. It is an issue now; the current display of the new app may make it worse, but the underlying problem is the training of the CV along with users not being critical about CV suggestions. I have some ideas about concrete changes that might improve the CV training, but I find I need time to formulate my thoughts so I haven’t gotten around to starting a thread on the topic. It has been coming up quite a bit recently, so I think it would make sense to have a dedicated discussion rather than digressions in existing threads.

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