What on earth is going on with this, and why is the announcement only on X and nowhere else? https://bsky.app/profile/petnoodle.bsky.social/post/3lrasl5ixvk2t I do not know the details, but I am ABSOLUTELY against ANYTHING to do with big-tech AI. This is a line I am not willing to cross, and many …

My biggest problem with the arguments here, and the ones you’ve been presenting prior, is that they jump past the scope of what I think the main discussion/argument here is calling into question… which is “Why?” Why is this a wanted or necessary change? I understand your perspective of arguing over…

Addressing a few of your points that I think have the knowledge to speak on (fully acknowledge I might be missing some stuff): If this LLM is at near human-level accuracy, why not just hire experts who actually want to do and were trained for years to do this kind of work instead of a machine at …

A slice of a 30 million dollar pie, for one, is my guess. Gotta keep the lights on. Not saying I agree with it, just that 30mil - even a mere fraction of it - is a lot of money, especially for an organization like iNat.

I have nothing but pure unadulterated hatred and vitriol for generative AI in most of its forms, for a variety of reasons ranging from the issues in functional application (which I understand can be and are being fixed) to the ethical and philosophical implications (which cannot and are not) and wou…

Thanks for the response @wendyjegla . I do agree that skepticism can be good. What I am pushing back against in point 3 is emphasizing the potential negatives without acknowledging the positives. For instance, you say that “Gen AI is utterly unnecessary,” but as several others in this thread have rob…

There are kinds of machine learning that do have enormous potential for good. Radiology comes to mind - radiologists are still employed and like the added help. Pattern recognition - like CV - is powerful and, generally reliable. LLMs are a kind of pattern recognition, but with messy human language…

I came to this forum after months (years?) away from being active, because I saw the announcement filtered in from other social media. This is not how to announce working with an unethical tech company that got rid of it’s simple “don’t be evil” motto ages ago. Getting into cohorts simply raises eth…

[image] wendyjegla: But here’s where I start getting the matches out - they’re partnering with Google? Seriously? The company that used to be “don’t be evil” and is now “f*ck yeah, let’s do some evil!”. I’ll never be OK with that. Google already provides the stuff to handle a lot of the mappi…

:nods Not to get too into the political weeds here, but “there is no ethical consumption […]” is a common refrain for a reason. Not that we shouldn’t hold ourselves to higher moral standards whenever we can, because we absolutely should, and “no ethical consumption” is NOT a valid excuse to broadly…

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zygy June 10, 2025, 10:25pm 66

If iNat wants to make identification tips easier to find, just give us a wiki page, a la this feature request. We’ll be happy to do all the work of organizing and curating identification tips, no AI needed!

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