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davidgerard.co.uk • 3 days ago

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMc7sVrGKyU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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misshap.bsky.social•3 days ago

You know you have a good product with a solid use case when you're bribing people to use it.

joebaldwin.me.uk•3 days ago

I know Greggs do good food because whichever shop I go in there's someone from Greggs there suggesting I eat a sausage roll, and then if I pick up another food item from the shelf they appear to ask if I wouldn't perhaps prefer a sausage roll instead?

xxiainxx.bsky.social•3 days ago

And after it worked so well for nanowrimo

carre.neocities.org•3 days ago

i read through some of the inaturalist forum threads linked in that article, and some of the posts on the matter, such as this one by hawkparty, are very good. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-is-this-inaturalist-and-generative-ai/66140/579

davidgerard.co.uk•3 days ago

and some are as dense as linkedin posters

layer8problem.bsky.social•3 days ago

Doesn't using fabricated information fundamentally undermine the whole project?

why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's AI, so it's just making everything better. Duh. 😵

andhab.bsky.social•3 days ago

Speed running killing people via bad plant identification once again. Woo.

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