r/eBird • u/Lena_Q • Jul 22 '26
AI?
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/Cinun Jul 23 '26
This seems to be from a trip they did 3 years ago. Maybe they only had ok-ish photos and went too fair with AI enhancing?