https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-ai-grant-to-inaturalist-prompts-community-outcry/

What do we learn from that? Easy: people who like plants are mean and evil.
Remember we can always generate more plants on your screen. So green and clean. 🍀

#SaveTheAI #inaturalist #google

Google AI Grant to iNaturalist Prompts Community Outcry

The nonprofit iNaturalist announced that it received a $1.5-million grant from Google’s philanthropic arm to develop generative AI tools for species identification. The news didn’t go over well

Scientific American

@savetheAI

More seriously though, and apropos #Limits2025, this fascinating paper from #Limits2023 shows a #convivial approach to identifying plants with human intelligence as opposed to that #iNaturalist grant. That kind of "undone science" could be better funded if they weren't so busy throwing #LLMs at everything.

https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/sapyi15v/release/1

Back to the trees: Identifying plants with Human Intelligence

Computing within Limits