I will leave this quote below as a reminder (words from staff), just in case if anyone is unhappy with this. And we have to remember iNat already spends a lot of money just on operating the website yearly which was a similar figure.
Also I still see people arguing about evil Google above, bad impact on nature, and etc.
Anyone reading please see for example these posts if you haven’t:
1 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/431?u=escol
2 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/442?u=escol
3 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/799?u=escol
4 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/819?u=escol