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We've now also preprinted our paper on
«Perspectives on Crowdsourced #CitizenScience and the Data Governance of AI Applications»
given that it's so timely :D
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5291262

Just stumbled across a great App of @geodepartment.mastodon.online
Have you encountered changes in the alpine environment: glacier retreat, land slides, vegetation change etc.? Bring them into context to uncover historical changes and report them at #Alps #GlobalChange #CitizenScience

I've written up a few words about the #iNaturalist backlash in light of them wanting to do "generative 'AI'", and how it ties into better shared decision making: #citizenscience

Last year I wrote a paper on how "GenAI" is a risk for #citizenscience (it being an academic paper it's still slowly dying in review). One of the points was that using "AI" devalues the contributions made by human volunteers, leading to contributors (rightfully) disengaging.
Yesterday, #inaturalist announced an "AI"-partnership with Google, and unsurprisingly that's exactly the backlash they got…
https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions

iNaturalist really tries hard to just sit out any criticism regarding their "GenAI", in the meanwhile PZ Myers has some choice words on the matter too: Keep your AI slop out of my scientific tools!
#citizenscience

For folks who missed it due to timezones: I wrote a post about different options for sharing decision-making power with online communities, nudged by the situation around inaturalist. #citizenscience
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/

Let's use Hanlon's Razor, and assume good faith in that the #inaturalist staff just needs a bit of help for how one could actually share decision-making power with a large online community.
To do that, I've written up some ideas of how other online communities (in #citizenscience, #openscience and beyond) have gone about doing that.
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/