Post #1276211
2022-12-11 09:31 UTC
@joncounts @KorimakoEcology I've been assuming that the AI would be able to learn enough to generate mostly plausible and habitat-appropriate but fake records. Generating plenty of these would make the observer seem experienced and reliable. This would make it possible to produce others that indicate new populations of rare species outside sites proposed for use by extractive industries. In the case of #iNaturalist, the RG requirements would also require them to fake new photos.
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@joncounts@mastodon.nz 2022-12-11 09:45
@dhobern @KorimakoEcology That scenario would certainly be worrying. I see it mostly applying to areas, or taxa, where there are very few other observers active. Otherwise, the bot will still appear as an outlier, and some interested observers will inevitably check up on the plausible but fake records. I can't see it working for plants, since it's easy for someone to verify a plant sighting. Plausible but falsified observations of a rarer moth would be harder to catch as fraudulent.