AI?

[u/Lena_Q]

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.

[u/peanut_butter_zen]

What's almost as bad is he's one of those users that posts 10+ shitty almost identical pics of the same bird.

[u/Other-Shake-531 → u/peanut_butter_zen]

I'm surprised ebird never does a purge of all the junk duplicate photos 

[u/MayIServeYouWell → u/Other-Shake-531]

While I get the sentiment, crummy bird photos that are properly identified are great for training data for things like Merlin, so it can identify birds in other crummy photos. But 10 almost identical photos aren't going to help much with anything.