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As a photographer I'm always striving to level up my images, but researchers are warning bird photographers that one way to "improve" a bird photo may actually end up contaminating valuable citizen scientist databases with misleading data. Image 1 of 2An Epaulet Oriole While fake wildlife images are already littering social media platforms, the altered images' existence inside these so-called citizen scientist platforms could have serious implications, as researchers will use the sightings reported from hobbyist birders to monitor a species' habitat and patterns. AI image processing tools are now ubiquitous, and there is a pressing need to educate contributors of the problems that image manipulation can cause for the scientific record," the researchers wrote. The drive for better bird photos is actually contaminating valuable resources, researchers warn amid the era of AI photo editing...
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As a photographer I'm always striving to level up my images, but researchers are warning bird photographers that one way to "improve" a bird photo may actually end up contaminating
Image 1 of 2An Epaulet Oriole While fake wildlife images are already littering social media platforms, the altered images' existence inside these so-called citizen scientist platfo
AI image processing tools are now ubiquitous, and there is a pressing need to educate contributors of the problems that image manipulation can cause for the scientific record," the
The drive for better bird photos is actually contaminating valuable resources, researchers warn amid the era of AI photo editing The drive for better bird photos is actually contam