What's the iNaturalist AI drama...? I hadn't heard about anything until now.
iNaturalist announced a project, funded by a $1.5 million dollar grant from Google, to create a LLM trained on user ID comments to produce generative AI ID tips.
As a user that has voluntarily provided nearly 95k IDs and a lot of them containing uncountable hours of study to provide helpful and accurate information for the community, this disgusts me.
The official announcement on site: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions
The official announcement on bsky:
Over the next 6 months, iNaturalist will be participating in the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI program to help build tools to improv
Official feedback form:
(2/3) In the meantime, we don't want to lose track of any of the really valuable feedback coming in. If you have significant or longer feedb
A forum discussion:
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