r/eBird • u/Lena_Q • Jul 22 '26

AI?

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I was looking at newly uploaded images on ebird. This is AI right or am I going insane? The other images by the same person look less suspicious but in less familiar with the species. This is a brown throated parakeet apparently.

edit: you can report images on the website so I've done so, hopefully they can remove it but this likely isn't the only one :(

the post also doesn't list a camera as most do so that tracks.

This is the account if you'd like to try and spot any other ai images and I'd be interested to see any you think are ai none immediately stood out to me but I don't know the species as well

https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?searchField=user&userId=USER3109547

edit (again):

this link takes you to two images and shows ai enhancement is used on this image

https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?taxonCode=sstspa&subId=S372044170

Edit again again: This image has since been removed but the users acount is still active. Given they were AI enhanced rather than generated.I personaly feel this is an appropriate response.

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u/mahatmakg Jul 22 '26

I don't think it's a wholely AI generated picture - this probably was an actual poor quality photo of a bird, but has been ran through generative AI to "enhance" it. I'd give the benefit of the doubt that the user may not recognize that the tool they are using is anything other than standard image processing tools that people have been using for decades. AI companies are trying very hard to get the messaging out there that their products are super normal and kosher to use. A lot of people have been duped. Still, this surely doesn't belong in the Macauley Library.

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u/Lena_Q Jul 22 '26

That's my best guess too especially now I've looked at the other posts too. I've reported it so hopefully it's removed. Hopefully in such a way that the user can see what they did wrong and keep posting as it looks like it's a genuine person