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

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…