[Edit:] oh no, it's the same ppl.

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FAQs What is the history of iNaturalist and AI? iNaturalist has been synthesizing photos and identifications using machine learning since 2017 to provide computer vision suggestions (a kind of AI) on the iNaturalist website and mobile apps. In 2023 we started incorporating observation location into our model training process, which resulted in the geomodel and range maps. All of the training of these models happens on two machines we own and control. Each time we update the model, we write a blog post about the new species that have been added thanks to the observations and identifications from the iNaturalist community. You can read the most recent blog post from April.

the second link is about AI generated or AI enhanced wildlife images being uploaded to citizen scientists database, and the inaturalist director of community support authoring a paper on why this is bad, along with a brief mention of the fact that inaturalist is trying to combat this with flagging that tries to prevent these images from being used in research

“Regular people are posting information that a scientist could probably never get at scale,” said Tony Iwane of iNaturalist, a co-author on the paper. He called the network “almost like a sensor of what is happening on Earth in real time.” His catch: the information needs to be accurate. Feed it bad data and the inferences go wrong. A single AI-invented sighting can suggest a species has shifted its range when it has not. There is a second cost, too. Manipulated images used to train AI identification tools can quietly degrade them.

Fighting back The platforms are starting to respond. iNaturalist now lets users flag images two ways. A fully-AI-generated flag hides the image. An over-manipulated flag drops it to “casual” grade, so it never reaches research databases.

Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."

The simple yet useful Arabic numeral:

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.