Tootfinder

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

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

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/

Not to mention that many folks who are regular contributors to #inaturalist are deeply invested into the environment and aren't fans of destroying it using 'GenAI - or that partnering with big-tech that destroys society in addition to nature might be 'a bit' tone-deaf in 2025…