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https://ebird.org/news/threat-of-ai-to-archives

eBird and the Macaulay Library will begin flagging artificial and over-edited photos. The examples that they show, which have previously been submitted, are appalling to me.

eBird is a scientific collection and research project, first and foremost. Even if you are an AI booster, I think it should be a given that significantly altered images do not warrant a place in scientific collections like this.

Perhaps a slightly hotter take, I also think this is good for photographers to keep in mind - eBird should not be a place for sharing heavily-edited photos either. Things like branches, food in the beak, loose feathers, mud on the legs, etc. are

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