iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…
The “generative AI” mention in the grant is badly worded corporate buzzspeak, and doesn’t accurately reflect anything that will be used here - disregard any association to what you normally expect from those words
That sounds particularly suspect, coming with no answer as to what it does mean.
I agree, and it’s also a second hand account from someone who met with them.
However it IS enough for me to hold off on deleting anything until I can hear more. My big concern was this point:
The grant from google is indeed a grant, and they are not receiving any data or anything else in exchange for it (I’m sure they’re scraping and stealing stuff anyway but that’s true for anything posted online)
That sounds particularly suspect, coming with no answer as to what it does mean.
I agree, and it’s also a second hand account from someone who met with them.
However it IS enough for me to hold off on deleting anything until I can hear more. My big concern was this point: